1American Gothic: The Art of Carlos Batts

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1American Gothic: The Art of Carlos Batts
foreward by John Gilmore
Pages: 128
Size: 8.5x12˝
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 0-9764035-0-1
Website: www.ScapegoatPublishing.com/carlosbatts.htm
zzThe bookz
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Madness and genius collide in Carlos Batts’ answer to Grant Wood’s 1930 portrait of the same
name: that granite-faced, pitchfork-totin’ embodiment of what this country was early last century.
Today’s America is a very different matter. Fuse Romare Bearden with Man Ray and you might
come close to Batts’ vivisection of America’s diseased soul.
In 128 pages of experimental photography and mixed-media, Batts brings forth frenzied,
expressionistic hybrids of horror and beauty. Here is the birth of the new. Contains a full length
compact disc featuring Mastodon, Pg. 99, Swarm of the Lotus, Pig Destroyer, Dog Fashion Disco,
Radiation 4, Daybreak, Buzzoven, and Agoraphobic Nosebleed.
zThe authorz
Carlos Batts is photographer, filmmaker, curator, and a provocateur, documenting music, style
and art subcultures. This is his third book. Batts’ previous books are Wild Skin and Crazy Sexy
Hollywood (Edition Reuss).
Images of
America’s
diseased soul,
the birth of a
new.
John Gilmore is internationally acclaimed for his literary fiction, hard-boiled true crime books
and Hollywood memoirs. He is the author of Laid Bare: A Memoir of Wrecked Lives and the
Hollywood Death Trip, Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder, Manson: The Unholy
Trial of Charlie and His Family, and other titles.
zQuotesz
“Taken all together, it is a very scary package. But as with any work of art, you’re welcome to draw your own
conclusions. The book shrieks for itself. Whether you see an apocalyptic present, a fucked up future or merely a
manipulative artist is, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder. Or that disembodied eyeball on page 48.”
- Abby Ehmann Eros Zine London
““Startling, shocking, vivid, confrontational. Never less than fascinating ... and fearless.”
- Ellen Datlow, Editor, Blood is Not Enough, Alien Sex, and The Dark
“If you put Matthew Barney and Helmut Newton’s masterpieces through a meat grinder and seasoned it with
the Byzantine elegance of Duccio, the result would be the disturbing Gothic elegance of Carlos Batts’s work.”
- Greg Reifsteck, Fangoria magazine
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Phone
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