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| Dreamland | 
 enlarge | Authors: Todd Schorr, Doug Harvey
Publisher: Last Gasp
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 167388
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 11.4 x 11.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 0867195894
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5092
EAN: 9780867195897
ASIN: 0867195894
Publication Date: April 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Todd Schorr grew up in the 1950s in a world populated by Revell models, Mad Magazine, Mr. Peanut, and Mickey Mouse. These images fueled his artistic imagination, spawning vibrant, outlandish visions of Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny in a murderous pas de deux, hapless kiddies forced through flaming hoops, a genocidal egg hunt, and all other manner of mayhem. This illustrated tour of Schorr's best work is like a Saturday morning cartoon created by Hieronymous Bosch.
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 twisted pop art January 27, 2008
A great book of twisted pop art. Those of you with a love of the age of characters selling products and differing takes upon such characters will love it. It is a book you will either love or hate.
Dreamy ... October 31, 2007
A simply superb book - gives a real sense of process, of the development of Mr. Schorr's unique style over time, and has nice large repros of the work (including many of the 'detail' insets so necessary to get any real sense of this work). A must-have for anyone interested in modern surrealism or in pop culture generally, plus a pure joyous delight from start to finish.
It would be straightforward and reasonable to write a Ph.D. thesis on the images and characters here selected and manipulated, and their role in American culture -- More revealingly perhaps, children who visit me and see it simply ADORE this book, and there is little or no non-kid-appropriate imagery. I bought a copy of this as a surprise gift for a teenage-artist friend who had mentioned a newfound fascination with Magritte, and she says it 'changed her life'! While I won't promise life changes, I can easily promise that anyone with an interest in how images are used to massage the public psyche, and/or a fully-developed sense of the ridiculous and the sublime, will find a whole lot to love here. CC
It's great!! July 14, 2007
Todd Schorr is a great artist!!!
This book is the best recopilation of him
Dreamland - Todd Schorr July 30, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great book, excellent quality. provacative art images. Cool cover to protect book through time.
I love this book Todd Schorr is a surrealistic treasure July 31, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I found out about about Todd Schorr through reading Juxtapoz magazine,being a fan of "lowbrow art" I loved how Schorr mixes so many influences from cartoons to hot rod culture to make statements from the personal to our social concerns. "The battle of Holidays" and the Thanksgiving paintings are amongst my faves and are in the book. It's packaging and presentations are great for a hardcover book. Outside of Robert Williams, Todd Schorr is amongst the best artists in the world get this book.
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