Malicious Resplendence: The Paintings of Robert Williams by Robt. Williams

Malicious Resplendence: The Paintings of Robert Williams Reviews

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  Andy

  The ultimate Robert Williams compilation, America's premier artist never fails to amuse and astound with his complex and intense visions. The book includes a bio on the wild man himself (goofin' off with Crumb and S. Clay) and insane fever dreams spanning over thirty years of insanity.
  
  All the hits are here: Hot Rod Race, Appetite For Destruction (the infamous G&R cover), the Hitchhiker Arm-Hacker, the Deborah Harry Almost-Killed-By-Ted-Bundy death trap painting, Apathy Sickle, and all the syphilitic strumpets you can handle prone on tacos, hot dogs, clams, a BLT, etc.
  
  Williams' subtitles to his paintings are a hoot, too, like in "The Day Joe Smiley 'Ate The Bad Oyster'" showing a John Q. Public hunched over a fire hydrant chucking his shucked shellfish, "Ptomaine Butt-Cherries On The Half-Shell". Top that, Shag! Then there's "The Tooth Fairy", showing the fantasy version of the tooth fairy and then blowing up the reality, a bitter cancer-stick sucking floozy aka the "Pack Rat-Minded Beatnik Bitch With A Need For Your Calcium". Sounds like art to me, Butch!
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  David

  This was out of print for a while. I was so pleased when I was able to buy it from Amazon at a reasonable price. For a while there it was going on Ebay for hundreds of dollars. If you like Robt. Williams, you pretty much have to have this.
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  John Morrison

  My all time favorite artist!! It was a must have back in art school.