A Fool's Gold

By Chris Von Szombathy

A NEW PETIT LIVRE DETAILING OUR EXPENDABLE POP CULTURE OBSESSIONS In his second book with D&Q, Vancouver artist Chris von Szombathy expands on his obsession with advertising iconography and the media at large. He takes the everyday objects around us--like soda-pop bottles, ketchup containers, and hamburger wrappers--and (almost) turns them into things of beauty. In paintings and sculptures characterized by bright, primary colors, von Szombathy has created an ode to fast-food culture and the society that supports it. His imagery veers from simple line work to meticulously detailed pastiche, occasionally with a "Wacky Packages" quality about them. From the crude cartooniness of pieces like "Hotdog Runner" to the skillfully reconstructed day-old doughnut in "The Shape of Things to Go," the everyday vulgarity of our disposable culture has never looked better.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1770460578
• ISBN13: 9781770460577
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly Pubns
• Length: 96 Pages
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.1" x 7.0"