KAWS Where the End Starts
KAWS Where the End Starts by Andrea Karnes is an illustrated monograph published by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in 2017. This book presents a comprehensive survey of KAWS’s work, showcasing his evolution from graffiti artist to a prominent figure in both fine art and commercial design. With 199 pages, it features a wide array of KAWS’s creations, including collectible art toys, large-scale sculptures, and bold paintings that merge elements of pop culture with artistic innovation.
Readers will find an in-depth exploration of KAWS’s prolific career, highlighting key paintings, sculptures, drawings, and fashion designs. The book discusses how KAWS appropriates familiar characters and images from popular entertainment, effectively blurring the boundaries between high and low art. Contributions from notable figures such as Michael Auping and Pharrell Williams provide additional insights into KAWS’s formal and conceptual development over the past two decades, reflecting his collaborations with brands like Comme des Garçons and Nike. This edition includes more than 150 color reproductions, making it a visually engaging resource for those interested in contemporary art and street culture.
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A major survey of KAWS and his eye-popping work, from collectible art toys to UNIQLO T-shirts, from grafitti to museum exhibitions
Appropriating characters, images and effects from pop culture, the work of KAWS blurs the lines between high and low art, and between art and fashion. Deploying film and television favorites for his toys, large-scale sculpture and bold, nearly abstract painting, KAWS recasts the familiar colors and forms of popular entertainment in cheeky and often poignantly human terms. Influenced by Andy Warhol and other Pop artists, hard-edge abstract painting and graffiti, KAWS’ work deftly straddles consumer culture and artistic innovation, and his distinctive style is as much at home in his toys as in his monumental sculpture.
KAWS: Where the End Starts explores the artist’s prolific career in depth, featuring key paintings, sculptures, drawings, toys, and fashion and advertising designs. This extensive monograph, including contributions from Andrea Karnes, Michael Auping, Dieter Buchhart and Pharrell Williams, reveals critical aspects of KAWS’ formal and conceptual development over the past 20 years, as his career has shifted from graffiti to fine art and collaborations with designers and brands such as Comme des Garçons, SUPREME, Nigo (A Bathing Ape) and Nike.
Published in a hardcover edition with more than 150 color reproductions by the Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth in conjunction with the major 2016 Fall exhibition on KAWS.
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