Ed Hardy
The brand known as "Ed Hardy" has sold more than a billion units of merchandise to date and continues to expand into emerging markets. But who is the artist Ed Hardy who created the images that have taken on a life of their own, replicated on everything from shirts to air fresheners to cologne? In these uncensored interviews, Ed Hardy demonstrates the relentless curiosity, rebellion, and rigor that have informed his creative career from the very beginning. He names artists, books, movements, and ideas that will continue to inspire seekers of new frontiers and territories to emblazon. Determined to legitimize the tattooing as an art form, Ed Hardy pioneered a creative practice centered on the enhancement of the human body.

Today, Ed Hardy has retired from tattooing, focusing on making paintings, drawings, lithographs, etchings, ceramics, collages, scrolls, and work in other media. But how does an artist stay creative while a brand bearing his name wreaks a global tsunami of a parallel existence that confuses countless onlookers?
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Ed Hardy
The brand known as "Ed Hardy" has sold more than a billion units of merchandise to date and continues to expand into emerging markets. But who is the artist Ed Hardy who created the images that have taken on a life of their own, replicated on everything from shirts to air fresheners to cologne? In these uncensored interviews, Ed Hardy demonstrates the relentless curiosity, rebellion, and rigor that have informed his creative career from the very beginning. He names artists, books, movements, and ideas that will continue to inspire seekers of new frontiers and territories to emblazon. Determined to legitimize the tattooing as an art form, Ed Hardy pioneered a creative practice centered on the enhancement of the human body.

Today, Ed Hardy has retired from tattooing, focusing on making paintings, drawings, lithographs, etchings, ceramics, collages, scrolls, and work in other media. But how does an artist stay creative while a brand bearing his name wreaks a global tsunami of a parallel existence that confuses countless onlookers?
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Ed Hardy

Ed Hardy

Ed Hardy

Ed Hardy

Overview

The brand known as "Ed Hardy" has sold more than a billion units of merchandise to date and continues to expand into emerging markets. But who is the artist Ed Hardy who created the images that have taken on a life of their own, replicated on everything from shirts to air fresheners to cologne? In these uncensored interviews, Ed Hardy demonstrates the relentless curiosity, rebellion, and rigor that have informed his creative career from the very beginning. He names artists, books, movements, and ideas that will continue to inspire seekers of new frontiers and territories to emblazon. Determined to legitimize the tattooing as an art form, Ed Hardy pioneered a creative practice centered on the enhancement of the human body.

Today, Ed Hardy has retired from tattooing, focusing on making paintings, drawings, lithographs, etchings, ceramics, collages, scrolls, and work in other media. But how does an artist stay creative while a brand bearing his name wreaks a global tsunami of a parallel existence that confuses countless onlookers?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781889307398
Publisher: RE/Search Publications
Publication date: 01/07/2014
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 4.00(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

About The Author
As an architect of the contemporary world of tattoo, Ed Hardy's preeminence led to a 2004 licensing agreement that made "Ed Hardy" an international global brand. He divides his time between San Francisco and Hawaii.

In 1977 V. Vale published "Search & Destroy" magazine, originally funded by Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, at City Lights Bookstore. In 1980 he founded RE/Search, which published the influential "Modern Primitives" issue, plus other cultural jump-starters. He lives in San Francisco.

Read an Excerpt

I don’t know if you know this guy’s painting. Llyn Foulkes, he’s having a retrospective in L.A. This is more recent. That’s a picture of him in his 20s, like a dead cat. His stuff is really disturbing if you Google him. You should look at his work. It’s really astounding. He’s having a big retrospective at the hammer museum in L.A. They’re pretty—a lot of them are pretty confrontational creepy paintings. A lot of them are built up. That’s a self-portrait.

He’s obsessed with Disney as the Evil in the universe. His first wife was a daughter of one of those famous cartoonist guys, one of the old men who started the thing from the whole Fantasia era on. Llyn was around this whole Disney scene a lot, and he’s adapted these pictures—he uses Mickey Mouse in a lot of his paintings as a symbol of everything that’s wrong with the world. He’s got a real rant going on. But if you look online, you’ll see stuff about him.

He’s been around. Llyn’s like, mid-70s now. He’s always lived in L.A., and he’s still painting. Finally they gave him a huge retrospective. So I’m going down for that in two weeks. I had to call Richard Shaw so we could go down together

Table of Contents

Introduction by V. Vale

The Counter Culture Hour, transcript

Ed Hardy 2013

Artists & the Internet

India, Jean Dubuffet, Henning Mankell

Surrealism, Longevity

Beats and Biographies

Index

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