Ron English

Through his highly subversive art Ron English (b. 1959) has bombed the global landscape with striking and often unsettling imagery. He coined the term "POPaganda" to describe his signature and darkly satirical renderings of corporate branding icons. Ranging from superhero mythology to pillars 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, which fused America's 16th and 44th Presidents, an image that was posited by the media as having directly impacted the 2008 election. His cameo on The Simpsons secured his position as America's premier pop iconoclast. This book is the first complete retrospective of English's work, compiling his paintings, illustrations, toys, sculpture, street art, and "agit-pop." Additionally, it contains a lengthy and comprehensive interview with the artist conducted exclusively for this publication.

Ron English is widely considered to be one of the seminal figures in the ever-growing subvertising or culture jamming movement, in which artists and activists subvert an existing advertisement to send out their own message or encourage free thought. He has pirated over a thousand billboards over the last twenty years, replacing exisiting advertisements with his own hand-painted subvertisements'. English is also a well-known pop painter.'

A comprehensive survey covering 20 years of English's career - from staged photography to neo-Surrealist oil paintings to street art - this is an important look at the work of an artist who has been at the forefront of activist art movements in photography, painting and underground music. Ron English has been called the Robin Hood of Madison Avenue for his seminal work in billboard subvertising and is widely considered to be a founding member of the Culture Jamming movement.' #NAME?'

STATUS FACTORY is a hardcover art book presenting new paintings from street art legend Ron English. In his paintings, English perverts and subverts the establishment, poking fun at religion, consumerism, and blind obedience to popular culture. He uses humor as a wake-up call, and renders it with meticulous brush strokes. Ron English populates alternate versions of "The Last Supper" and "Guernica" with cartoon characters, drops camouflaged clowns on dinosaurs, and births incredible creatures from his fertile imagination. Among reinterpretations of familiar characters like Ronald McDonald and Mickey Mouse, you'll find three-eyed rabbits, udderly delicious cowgirls, grinning skulls, and many more. In addition to over 180 images from his paintings, Status Factory includes over 100 photographs of English's street art installations, subverted billboards, and other public art. An afterword by the artist delves into his creative process, explaining how source materials are transformed into his riveting images. Luxuriously printed on heavy art paper, this large-format coffee table book showcases Ron English's art beautifully. A great addition to any art library focused on street art, pop surrealism, graffiti, and painting.

Who wants a book that just sits on the coffee table? Here's one to decorate not only the coffee table but the refrigerator, notebooks, laptop computers, public walls, cars - practically any other surface! Ron English's Stickable Art Offenses is a book of stickers readers can actually put up in their own environments, packed with mini-billboards, 'subvertisements' and other visual enhancements from one of the most prolific and recognisable artists working today.

A sensational new coloring book from pop art surrealist and satirist Ron English! Pop-culture grotesqueries, leering corporate logos and discomforting dementia of all shapes and sizes fill the pages of Ron English's Popaganda Coloring Book! Decorate, fill-in, bludgeon or besmirch English's black-and-white renderings in toxic yellow, blood-brown or neon rainbow colors, whatever you choose! English's POPagnda drawings for coloring are accompanied with Swiftian slogans sure to liven up the occasion. Specially designed for 21st-century consumption. Fun for all ages!

Explores the belief that all art is the futile attempt to cheat death, and death is the thing that gives all art meaning. This important look at the work of an artist who has been a seminal figure in the culture jamming and street art movements of the last 25 years will be of interest to all designers, painters, illustrators, graffiti and street artists, and art collectors.

Think of it as a primer for nascent vandals and future graffiti writers. An adhesive antidote to the numbing banality of the corporate landscape, these stickers are designed to jumpstart your quest to unseat authority, or at least hurl a pie at it. Who wants a book that just sits on the coffee table when they could have one that decorates the coffee table... and the refrigerator, notebooks, backpacks, walls or the family dog? This is pocket-sized, remastered for today's aesthetic and affordably priced for the beginning miscreant.

The popular Starfist series, featuring Marines in the far future, makes its hardcover debut with this story of a war against aliens on the planet Kingdom.

FAUXLOSOPHY by Ron English, is a compelling collection of the artist's sayings with his accompanying iconic images. It is a light read with indelible images bringing to life wit and wisdom to live by through art, humor and ironic inspiration. Ron English is one of the most prolific and recognisable American artists alive today. Considered the Godfather of Street Art, he has appeared in movies such as Exit through the Gift Shop and Supersize Me and as a character of himself in the Simpsons. One of the most prolific and recognizable artists alive today, 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.