The Dark Art of Automobiles
Conceived & produced by Leslie Barany
176 pgs
8.5″x11″
$29.95
ISBN13 978-0-9795132-1-3
Avail. Spring 2008
Barany Books/Scapegoat Publishing
The Book:
Carnivora is a shadowy place where the dark communion of flesh and machine coalesce into the 20th Century’s most influential creation-The automobile. As an indispensable extension of ourselves, this metallic doppelganger can be as dark and destructive as the men and women who drive them.Carnivora: The Dark Art of Automobiles is a chilling joyride with some of the most noir artists from the last half of the 20th century .
FEATURING:
an International group of 92 artists, among them: Guy Aitchison, Marshall Arisman, Anthony Ausgang, Glenn Barr, Zdzislaw Beksinski, Trevor Brown, Joe Coleman, Coop, Robert Crumb, Jason D’Aquino, Ron English, H.R. Giger, John John Jesse, Frank Kozik, Dennis Larkins, Tanino Liberatore, Travis Louie, John “Crash” Matos, Mark Mothersbaugh, Stanley Mouse, Niagara, Camilo Pardo, Peter Pontiac, Pooch, J. K. Potter, Dan Quintana, Sibylle Ruppert, Shag, Winston Smith, Hajime Sorayama, Tom Thewes (der Lärm), Tomi Ungerer, Brian Viveros, Keith Weesner, Robert, Williams and Chet Zar, with texts by 22 authors, among them: Jennifer Blowdryer, Harlan Ellison, Peter H. Gilmore, Chris Stein, Rick Manore, gallery director of 
POP, Carlo McCormick editor of Paper magazine, editor and writer, George Petros, artist and writer Neke Carson and authors William F. Nolan, Norman Spinrad, and Bill Levy, Jacaeber Kastor, founder of the famed Psychedelic Solution Gallery, Pet Sivia, director of Art at Large gallery, screenwriter Steve Blush, writer and artist, Steve Cerio and Joseph Mauceri, editor of FEAR magazine.
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The Exhibit:
July 10th - August 9th, 2008- Fuse Gallery, New York,NY
MAY 3 - June 14, 2008- L Imagerie, Los Angeles,CA
January,12th-March 30th,2008-POP Gallery, Detroit,MI
Les Barany's Carnivora, the traveling exhibit of the Scapegoat/Barany Books softcover of the same name, will be touring the United States during 2008 and will feature much of the original work of many of the artists included in the book as well as many new pieces created by these artists exclusively for the exhibition. Commencing January 12th at Detroit's POP Gallery, it will move on to the new Los Angeles location of L'Imagerie Gallery and open on May 3rd. Most of the works from the book. plus more will be on display and for sale by some of the most important visual artists of the last quarter century.
