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Alex Israel Bret Easton Ellis
[Hardback - 2017]
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Category: Art
Sub-category: Individual Artists
Additional Category: Western Art - Photography
Publisher: Gagosian / Rizzoli | ISBN: 9780847861002 | Pages: 120
Shipping Weight: 1.327 | Dimensions: 12.9 x .7 x 10.8 inches

This provocative new book presents the collaborative paintings of Alex Israel and Bret Easton Ellis, among today’s sharpest observers of the culture of pleasure, their art inseparable from the world in which it finds expression.

Los Angeles is both background and subject in the respective oeuvres of Israel and Ellis. For Israel, the American dream, as embodied by the L.A. mythos, remains affecting and potent, and he approaches his hometown with an uncanny coupling of local familiarity and anthropological curiosity. While Ellis, who became famous for his portrait of an amoral, decadent L.A. of the 1980s in his debut novel Less Than Zero, has continued to elaborate upon his jaundiced vision of a superficial youth society over the past two decades.

Now these two artists have come together to create a lively discourse on their city. At Israel’s provocation, Ellis has written short texts that Israel then converted into various fonts and combined with commercial stock images. These striking images are displayed in full color, along with double-page installation photos of the 2016 exhibition and insightful essays and interviews.

Michael Tolkin is an American filmmaker and novelist. He has written numerous screenplays, includingThe Player(1992), which he adapted from his 1988 book by the same name, and for which he received the 1993 Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay. A follow-up book,Return of the Player, was published in 2006.Tolkin was born in New York City, New York, the son of Edith, a studio executive, and the late comedy writer Mel Tolkin. Tolkin lives in Los Angeles with his wife Wendy Mogel (parenting expert and author of bestsellerThe Blessing of a Skinned Knee).

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