"Taboo: The Art of Tiki" is at once a curatorial flourish and a cultural document: a small, handsome volume that archives a particular late-20th-century fascination with Pacific iconography as refracted through the sensibilities of Lowbrow and pop-surrealist artists. Edited by Martin McIntosh with an introduction by Sven A. Kirsten, and credited with contributions from figures … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Taboo: The Art of Tiki, edited by Martin McIntosh with an introduction by Sven A. Kirsten
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Night of the Tiki: The Art of Shag, Schmaltz, and Selected Primitive Oceanic Carvings by Douglas A. Nason, Doug Harvey, Jeff Fox
Night of the Tiki arrives as a small, smartly produced argument in the idiom of the coffee-table book: it stakes a curatorial claim with images, short essays, and selection rather than a long, linear history. What it proposes—clearly, and with a kind of tasteful provocation—is that postwar American “Tiki” is neither mere kitsch nor purely … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Night of the Tiki: The Art of Shag, Schmaltz, and Selected Primitive Oceanic Carvings by Douglas A. Nason, Doug Harvey, Jeff Fox
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Bottomless Cocktail: The Art of Shag by La Luz de Jesus & Last Gasp
Bottomless Cocktail: The Art of Shag stages Josh Agle’s work as more than a sequence of retro postcards; it presents a sustained aesthetic argument about pleasure, style, and the uneasy seductions of American postwar fantasy. La Luz de Jesus and Last Gasp have collected images that at first glance read as playful pastiche — bright … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Bottomless Cocktail: The Art of Shag by La Luz de Jesus & Last Gasp
Textured Tiki #6
Dimensions: 1.5" x 3" x 1.5" Glazed Terracotta, fired in an electric kiln to Cone 6. Available to own for $10 (plus shipping) See More at Arts MPerron @ https://1-mario-perron.pixels.com
Textured Tiki #5
Dimensions: 1.5" x 3" x 1.5" Glazed Terracotta, fired in an electric kiln to Cone 6. Available to own for $10 (plus shipping) See More at Arts MPerron @ https://1-mario-perron.pixels.com
Serious Blue Tiki #4
Dimensions: 1.5" x 3" x 1.5" Glazed Terracotta, fired in an electric kiln to Cone 6. Available to own for $10 (plus shipping) See More at Arts MPerron @ https://1-mario-perron.pixels.com
Serious Blue Tiki #3
Dimensions: 1.5" x 3" x 1.5" Glazed Terracotta, fired in an electric kiln to Cone 6. Available to own for $10 (plus shipping) See More at Arts MPerron @ https://1-mario-perron.pixels.com
Mossy Tiki #5
Dimensions: 1.5" x 3" x 1.5" Glazed Terracotta, fired in an electric kiln to Cone 6. Available to own for $10 (plus shipping) See More at Arts MPerron @ https://1-mario-perron.pixels.com
Mossy Tiki #3
Dimensions: 1.5" x 3" x 1.5" Glazed Terracotta, fired in an electric kiln to Cone 6. Available to own for $10 (plus shipping) See More at Arts MPerron @ https://1-mario-perron.pixels.com
Mossy Tiki #2
Dimensions: 1.5" x 3" x 1.5" Glazed Terracotta, fired in an electric kiln to Cone 6. Available to own for $10 (plus shipping) See More at Arts MPerron @ https://1-mario-perron.pixels.com
The New Renaissance Mindset 