{"product_id":"american-surreal-the-art-of-todd-schorr-74353","title":"American Surreal: The Art of Todd Schorr","description":"\u003cp\u003eOut of print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the publisher:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eThis is the latest collection of paintings by one of contemporary surrealism's most influential artists. American Surreal picks up where Dreamland, Schorr's previous best-selling collection of mind-bending paintings, left off. The viewer can look forward to countless hours of eye bulging investigative thought while examining the impeccably rendered subject matter that has become the hallmark of Schorr's outrageous vision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eOne of the seminal figures in what has come to be known as the Lowbrow or Pop Surrealism art movement, Schorr has continually and systematically set the bar ever higher in his quest to bring classic old master painting technique to his pop-culture-infused subject matter. This latest collection continues that journey culminating with the epic masterpiece Ape Worship, included in this volume. Schorr's paintings are the subject of museum retrospectives in 2009 and 2010, and are highly prized and coveted by collectors the world over. American Surreal is sure to satisfy those with an overly-developed visual appetite.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eThe last section is an homage to Carl Akeley who was curator of the Museum of Natural History in NYC for the first part of the 20th century and Todd's painting The Anguish of Carl Akeley. I've been a fan of Akeley's since reading William R. Leigh's Frontiers Of Enchantment and I learned things about Akeley from Todd's text that I never knew about. The coda is photographs of Akeley's business card and his Christmas card from 1923!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Last Gasp","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52580335124778,"sku":"74353","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/2879\/4922\/files\/1A4CB17D-78DD-408B-A861-1100589BF025.jpg?v=1789332572","url":"https:\/\/stuartngbooks.com\/products\/american-surreal-the-art-of-todd-schorr-74353","provider":"Stuart Ng Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}