The revised companion book to the Laguna-Art-Museum exhibit of the same name takes a look at Birk's ambitious series, which needs to be seen in its entirety to be fully understood. By documenting this 'Great War' - Birk's drawings and paintings parody the styles of early artists-explorers - his works offer social criticism on the general state of things in California. It includes a 20-track CD, which corresponds to various works in the series and it also comprises 16 new pages of propaganda posters.
What if the rivalry between San Francisco and Los Angeles erupted into civil war? Drawing on images and icons of contemporary culture as well as European and Latin American art history, Sandow Birk's paintings reflect a meditation on cultural identity, nationality, and history. The book comes with a CD of songs from this imagined war.
Artist Sandow Birk has created a new series of paintings and prints of California's 33 State Penitentiaries and 2 Federal Prisons. Birk made a pilgrimage to these correctional facilities to document them and render them in the style of Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Thomas Moran, Albert Bierdstadt and other significant 19th century artists.
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