Harmony Korine

Mike Mills

Aaron Rose

Chris Johanson

Alex Baker

Mark Gonzales

Victoria Lynn

Barry McGee

Shepard Fairey

Ryan McGinness

Ed Templeton

Margaret Kilgallen

Alexander Rodchenko

Jorge Macchi

Christian Strike

The greatest cultural accomplishments in history have never been the result of the brainstorms of marketing men, corporate focus groups or any homogenized methods; they have always happened organically. More often than not, these manifestations have been the result of a few like-minded people coming together to create something new and original for no other purpose than a common love of doing it. In the 1990s, a loose-knit group of American artists and creators, many just out of their teens, began their careers in just such a way. Influenced by the popular underground youth subcultures of the day, such as skateboarding, graffiti, street fashion and independent music, artists like Shepard Fairey, Mark Gonzales, Spike Jonze, Margaret Kilgallen, Mike Mills, Barry McGee, Phil Frost, Chris Johanson, Harmony Korine and Ed Templeton began to create art that reflected the lifestyles they led. Many had no formal training and almost no conception of the inner workings of the art world. They learned their crafts through practice, trial and error, and good old-fashioned innovation. Not since the Beat Generation have we seen a group of creative individuals with such a unified aesthetic sense and varied cultural facets. The world of art has been greatly affected by their accomplishments as have the worlds of fashion, music, literature, film, and, ironically, athletics. Beautiful Losers is a retrospective celebration of this spirit, with hundreds of artworks by over two dozen artists, from precursors like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Larry Clark, to more recent adherents Ryan McGinness, KAWS and Geoff McFetridge. Work in all conceivable mediums is included, plus reproductions of reams of ephemera. The accompanying essays are contributed by a half-dozen writers who have championed these beautiful losers from the start. This paperback reprint includes more pages, more images, an exhibition checklist, installation shots from a variety of exhibitions and an interview with Beautiful Losers advocate Agnes B.

Contemporary Art & Street Culture

Beautiful Losers

Mike Mills wrote and directed a film called 'Beginners'. The character in the film is often seen drawing. In this text, Mills has gathered together drawings that appear in the film, as well as many drawings he came up with about the important things in life.

Drawings from the Film Beginners

Jeffrey Deitch

Roger Gastman

Art in the Streets

Radical American artist, educator and once-devout Catholic nun, Sister Mary Corita Kent¿s provocative serigraphy has entranced audiences for over four decades. Originally completed in 1968, Kent¿s Signal Code Alphabet, encompasses a series of 26 kaleidoscopic serigraphs integrating scripture, typography, image, icon, and the maritime flags of the International Code of Signals. As 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of both the series¿ completion, and the centennial of Kent¿s birth, this celebratory monograph reproduces Kent¿s Signal Code Alphabet for the very first time in fine art monograph format.

International Signal Code Alphabet

Contemporary Art and Street Culture

Michael Mann

Gusmano Cesaretti

Born in 1944 in Lucca, Italy, and landing in the US at the second Kennedy was assassinated, self-taught photographer Gusmano Cesaretti became seduced by the raw energy, graffiti, culture and people which were East Los Angeles of the 1970s. One of the first photographers to document the area's street culture, this retrospective history of his celebrated work features many photos not seen since they were originally published in the 1970s.

Fragments of Los Angeles, 1969-1989

A catalog of an exhibition that surveys the history of international graffiti and street art.

New York's Alleged Gallery was a playground of artistic display for those who were involved in its creation. The gallery also served as a willing accomplice to some of the most vibrant American artists to come along in decades. This is the physical and visual representation of the spirit that was born from this urban experiment.

Ten Years of New York's Alleged Gallery

Young, Sleek and Full of Hell

Aaron Rose

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