Jim Shaw: Paperback Covers

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Author: Clement Dirie, Marc Jancou (eds.)Since the 1970s, American artist Jim Shaw has used his multimedia artistic practice as a means of exploring and exploiting pop-culture icon ography. This publication focuses on one of the key series in Shaw’s corpus, in which he draws inspiration from the Anglo-American graphic design and illustrative tradition of cheap paperback books. All the inventoried Paperback Covers are collected in this softcover volume along with a text by Charlie Fox.ISBN 9783037645659. JRP|Editions. pb. 104 pages. 70 colour ills. 21 x 26 cm.available Show more