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• Title:Robert Williams : conversations / edited by Joseph R. Given, Darius A. Spieth.
  
• ISBN:9781496844026
  1496844025
  9781496844033
  1496844033
  9781496850980
  9781496850997
  9781496851000
  9781496851017
  
• Publication:Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2023.
  
• Copyright notice date: ©2023
  
• Physical Description:xxv, 183 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  

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  • Call Number: PN6727.W55 Z46 2023 (LC)
    
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• Summary:"A legendary figure of underground comix, Robert Williams (b. 1943) is an important social chronicler of American popular culture. The interviews assembled in Robert Williams: Conversations attest to his rhetorical powers, which match the high level of energy evident in his underground comix and action-filled canvases. The public perception of Williams was largely defined by two events. In 1987, Guns N' Roses licensed a Williams painting for the cover of their best-selling album Appetite for Destruction. However, Williams's cover art stirred controversies and was moved to the inside of the album. The second defining event was Williams's participation in the Helter Skelter exhibition at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art in 1992. Protests ensued when a room was set aside to feature his work. Uncovering long-forgotten and hard-to-find interviews, this collection serves as a social chronicle of counterculture from the 1960s through the early 2000s. One of the founders of the original ZAP Comix collective in the 1960s, Williams drew inspiration from pulp fiction, hot rod culture, pin-up girls, and traditional academic art. He invented the comics character Cootchy Cooty and worked for the studios of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. He rubbed shoulders with outlaw motorcycle gangs and tested the legal limits of what was permissible comic book art during his day. He has often been described as a figure courting scandal and controversy, a reputation on which he commentates repeatedly in some of the interviews here. Since the 1980s, Williams has emerged as a force in the fine art world, raising interesting questions about how painting and comic art interrelate"--
  
• Other formats:Online version: Robert williams Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2023
  
• Format:Book
• Series:Conversations with comic artists
  Conversations with comic artists.
  
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
  
• Contents:Introduction: Courting trouble: The interviews of Robert Williams -- Chronology -- Psychopathia aesthetica / Paul Gravett -- The sublime and ubiquitous Robert Williams / Mark Dancey -- Robert Williams: Fouling the art world's nest since 1957 / Christine Natanael -- Robert Williams: More than meets the eye / Jonathan Shaw -- The Robert Williams interview / Donald M. Bailey and Long Gone John -- Esthetician of the preposterous / Michelle Delio -- Robert Williams interview / Steve Ringgenberg -- Motor mouths / Nicolas Cage -- Cartoon surrealism / Carlo McCormick -- Best intentions: New work by Robert Williams / Carlo McCormick -- Ed "Big Daddy" Roth / Gwynned Vitello -- Robert Williams interview / Ed Hardy -- Robert Williams in conversation with Kenny Scharf / Kenny Scharf -- Robert Williams: The master of the slang aesthetic / Jeffrey Deitch -- Robert Williams: "My stuff Is way kitsch -- to an abstract level" / Chris Campion -- Appendix: An unpublished Interview with Greg Escalante / Darius A. Spieth and Joseph R. Givens -- Index.
  
• Subjects:Williams, Robert, 1943---Interviews.
  Williams, Robert, 1943-
  Cartoonists--United States--Interviews.
  Underground comic books, strips, etc.--United States.
  Cartoonists.
  Underground comic books, strips, etc.
  United States.
  
• Also listed under:Givens, Joseph R., editor.
  Spieth, Darius Alexander, 1970- editor.