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This collection of the visually astonishing and bitingly funny work of fine artist and street art legend Ron English explores his belief that all art is a futile attempt to cheat death, and death is the thing that gives all art meaning. Featuring more than 170 of Ron's paintings, sculpture, and vinyl figures, it teems with fantastically twisted creatures, from three-eyed rabbits to udderly delicious cowgirls. Ron English has appeared as himself in such movies as Supersize Me Exit Through the Gift Shop, as well episode of the Simpsons, Exit through the Quik-E-Mart, playing himself as a member of an all-star street art gang. Ron has also done significant commercial and collaborative work with such brands as Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Puma, Absolut, Burton, Hurley, Scion and many others. He has designed album covers for Slash, Chris Brown, the Dandy Warhols, and others. Reviewed here in The Australian Financial Review

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The brilliant guerilla artist notorious for replacing corporate billboards and advertisements with satirical and pointed attacks on consumer culture. New York Magazine One of the art world's most effective and visually candid critics of this or any troubled time. Juxtapoz Alatter-day American hero, a Robin Hood who does not so much steal from the rich as steal the rich's thunder by making their products seem wicked or idiotic. Guardian A latter-day American hero, a Robin Hood who does not so much steal from the rich as steal the rich's thunder by making their products seem wicked or idiotic. -- Guardian

Alatter-day American hero, a Robin Hood who does not so much steal from the rich as steal the rich's thunder by making their products seem wicked or idiotic. Guardian

A latter-day American hero, a Robin Hood who does not so much steal from the rich as steal the rich's thunder by making their products seem wicked or idiotic. -- Guardian

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Ron English has bombed the global landscape with unforgettable images, on the street, in museums, in movies, books, and television. English coined the term POPaganda to describe his signature mash-up of high and low cultural touchstones. From superhero mythology to totems of art history, his work is populated with a vast and constantly growing arsenal of original characters, such as MC Supersized, the obese fast-food mascot featured in the hit movie ""Supersize Me,"" and Abraham Obama, the fusion of America's 16th and 44th Presidents, an image widely discussed in the media as directly impacting the 2008 election. As America s premier pop iconoclast he's played himself on"" The Simpsons."" He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.""

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