Posts Tagged ‘art’
- FORTY FOUR PRESIDENTS by MZA and Maria Sputnik
reviewed by Shahab Zargari Garrett County Press, 60 pages, hardcover, $10.36
This is a cute 6” x 7” book presenting all 44 presidents as if they were archiving Facebook profile pictures and status updates. It’s very clever as well as informative. Did you know that John Adams (our second president) was the first president never to have owned slaves in [...] - ANIMALS & OBJECTS IN AND OUT OF WATER by Jay Ryan
reviewed by Sean Lambert Akashic Books, 150 pages with 140 color illustrations, trade paperback, $22.95
Does a skilled rendering of a chimp on a bicycle, turtles raising a flag (a la Iwo Jima), or a sasquatch pushing a tricked-out lawnmower appeal to you? How about a bear wearing tube socks while running with a pair of scissors? This is the [...] - THE BEST OF INTENTIONS: THE AVOW ANTHOLOGY by Keith Rosson
reviewed by Shahab Zargari Microcosm Publishing, 268 pages, trade paperback, $12.00
This is the second pressing of this anthology, and what you get crammed inside is Avow zine’s issues 11 through 16 and selections from the first 10 issues. I’m not sure why they chose to include only a few pages from the first 10 issues; I feel like I’m [...] - Taxidermic Vanitas
words by Heather Schofner | art by Bonnie Wood | photos by Bonnie Wood, Kristina Galisova, Rebecca Parkes, and James Bell | modeled by Kristina Galisova, Viktoria Modesta, and Nina Kate Bonnie Wood is a rogue taxidermist from Norwich, England. Traditional taxidermy focuses on making deceased animals appear as lifelike and realistic as possible. Rogue taxidermists tend to take artistic license in the reassembly and posing of the stuffed animals. Bonnie explains, “Commonly, [rogue taxidermy] is understood as the creation of animals that do not exist [...]





