{"product_id":"art-crime-the-montage-art-of-winston-smith-9780867194401","title":"Art Crime: The Montage Art of Winston Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003eArt. \"Master collage artist Winston Smith snips glorious and terrible tree flesh from the magazines of our mind and pastes it. A mind is a terrible thing to paste. And Glorious!\" --Wavy Gravy. \"Collage is artistic monkey business which is quietly threating to become a fad. If it succeeds in this it will be  like Dadaism  another harmless little hoax perpetrated upon the art-loving public\" --Life Magazine  1943. \"We live in a hi-tech robber-baron era as toxic and vicious as the rise of the industrial revolution ... The relentless bombardment of tabloid anti-news and advertsising overkill numbs and isolates us from each other and our own humanity. We are told we are not a community  but a marketplace ... Is plucking someone elses creation from its original context ... a legitimate way to communicate? In an age where it gets harder to tell where the cartoon ends and real life begins  the answer is a billboard size YES\" -- Jello Biafra (from the Foreward). \"Winston Smiths use of pop magzine images keeps in sharp focus the ever encroaching apocalyptic nightmare\" -- S. Clay Wilson.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45792316489781,"sku":"ByrdShop_0867194405","price":240.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780867194401.jpg?v=1784747284","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/art-crime-the-montage-art-of-winston-smith-9780867194401","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}