The End of Living - The Beginning of Survival [2008]

The End of Living - The Beginning of Survival by Dash Snow [2008]

New in Publisher's Shrinkwrap. Hardcover in Slipcase; 22 pages
Walther König
4.2 pounds; 9.5 x 1.2 x 13 inches
393135542X

This beautifully produced first monograph on the young New York artist Dash Snow, whose complicated life and much-sought-after works have been chronicled in just about every major American art publication in recent years, contains stunning reproductions of his critical Dada-esque collages, which range from cum-glittered tabloid covers starring Saddam Hussein to straight text pieces to modified bondage images; new sculptural works composed of items like books, doll heads, chain mail and skeletal fragments; and a smattering of the photographs and Polaroids that originally made Snow famous outside of street art culture, where he began writing graffiti. Published on the occasion of Snow's one-person exhibition at Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, this volume, with paper changes, an embossed cover and a slipcase, is a certain collector's item. An informative short essay by Anna T. Berger rounds it out.