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Download or read book Conceptual Realism written by Robert Williams and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The painter Robert Williams brought the term "lowbrow" into the fine artslexicon, defining West Coast Outlaw culture into alternative art movement of thelate 20th century (the first break-away art movement in California since theEucalyptus School's estrangement from Impressionism in the late 1920s). Hiswork, which features bold use of underground cartoon figuration, paired withharshly contrasted psychedelic colors, spans through the "Big Daddy Roth" carculture of the early '60s, the underground comics movement led by Robert Crumbin the late '60s and early '70s, punk in the late '70s, to today: it became aneasily recognizable hallmark throughout the 1980s and 1990s