Wednesday, August 31, 2005

The La La Land Gallery will be hosting the "Hot Lunch" Group Show with Shag contributing an original lunchbox design from Saturday, September 24th, to November 1st.

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Finally picked up a copy of "Shag: The Art of Josh Agle" last night. Overall, I'd buy the book all over again, but here's the negatives:

  1. It's annoying how some of the images were cropped ("The Impossible View" truly becomes an impossible view)
  2. There are a fair share of things the proofreaders missed (more on that later)
  3. There isn't an afterword or final page - the book just ends, at first I thought my copy came with pages missing
  4. (Let me put my art critic hat on...) The images are grouped together by subject, I was hoping for a chronological presentation to show progression
Rough breakdown of images to shows -

1998
Anatomy of a Swinger - 4

1999
Dial "H" For Hipster - 2
Party Crashers - 1

2000
Calypso Show - 5
"J" Is For Jetsetter - 6
Supersonic Swingers - 13

2001
The Coolest Ghouls - 2
Dangerous Women - 8
Inside the Volcano - 1
Night of the Tiki - 15 (complete show)
The Sinner's Cookbook - 1

2002
Bottomless Cocktail - 9
Come Sin With Me - 1
Hedonist Confidential - 8
The Leisure Principle - 3
An Open Letter To the Emperor - 3
People In the City - 15

2003
Greetings From the Soul Patch - 5
Music After Midnight - 11
Tell No One - 3
The Twelve Stations of Ptolemy - 12 (complete show)

2004
Before the Eviction - 11
Call of Kapu - 7
Heroes and Monsters - 11
Holidays on Ice - 8 (complete show)

2005
A Gracious Oasis - 3

From Group Shows - 8

Still trying to place about 12 images, especially pages 40-41, "The Ghost of a Cad" from 2003 - nice!

Here's the editorial errors I've found so far (the majority of them are nitpicky, but 3 of them really need to be corrected before the second print run):

Cover (and page 50) - "The Little Fiddler" - I always thought it was "The Gifted Fiddler"

Page 2 - "Table Scraps" - "The Arcane Art of Outdoor Entertaining" from "J" Is For Jetsetter

Page 38 - "Love Beasts" - "The Love Beast" from the From Your Valentine Group Show

Page 47 - "Liberace's Hand" - book says 2003, The Leisure Principle was in 2002

Pages 56-57 - "The Dearly Departed" - book says 2002, Dangerous Women was in 2001

Page 59 - "Death Accompanies The Latin Drummers" - book says 2001, "J" Is For Jetsetter was in 2000

Pages 64-65 - "The Last Supper" - "Dino's Dinner," book says 2000, The Party Crashers was in 1999. "Bottomless Cocktail" refers to the piece as "L'Ultima Cena" (Italian for "The Last Supper") with a date of 1998.

Page 69 - "Prelude To Domestic Disturbance" - The image is actually "Frankenstein's Bride" from Coolest Ghouls

Pages 72-73 - "Satan's Minions Driven From Shrine Azan" - book says 1999, Anatomy of a Swinger was in 1998

Page 75 - "Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man" - book says 2003, the Juxtapoz 8th Anniversary Art Show was in 2002

Page 78 - "La Vespa" - "Il Vespa," book says 1999, Anatomy of a Swinger was in 1998

Page 79 - "Suonatore di Organetto" - book says 2003, Gods and Monsters Group Show opened Dec 06, 2002

Page 83 - "Spirits" - "The Spirits"

Page 94 - "Beatnik Diary" - book says 2002, Dangerous Women was in 2001. More importantly, the image is flipped! Compare this to what you see in the book (where'd the word "Diary" go?).

Page 118 - "Tall Woman on Tiki" - "Woman on Tiki"

Page 128 - "The Collector" - book says 1999, Anatomy of a Swinger was in 1998

Page 130 - "Octoberfiasco" - "Oktoberfiasco"

Page 137 - "Last Table In Vegas" - it's not the "Last Table In Vegas" that we know from Roq La Rue's Americana Group Show or Ox-Op's recent Press Your Luck

Page 158 - "Arachne" - "Arachne and the Warrior"

Pages 182-183 - "The Landlord And The Serpent" - "The Landlord Meets The Serpent"

Page 212 - "Lady Joe and Mr. Pinstripes" - "Mr. Pinstripes and Lady Joe"

All in all, I'm patiently waiting for Volume 2!

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