{"product_id":"giant-the-art-of-ken-womack","title":"GIANT: The Art of Ken Womack","description":"\u003cp\u003eKen Womack builds the objects of American consumer culture at the scale they already occupy in our imaginations. A Pop-Tart with a bite taken out, neon glowing along the edge. A blank cassette tape seven feet tall, side B unrecorded. An eight-foot Texas vanity plate, rusted and unapologetic, reading GIANT.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGIANT: The Art of Ken Womack\u003c\/i\u003e is published on the occasion of the artist's first solo museum exhibition, at the Museum of the Southwest in Midland, Texas. Twenty-four large-scale mixed-media works are reproduced in full color, from wall sculptures in plywood and acrylic to pieces built with neon, LED, motion, and salvaged industrial material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWomack spent more than thirty years inside the language of advertising before turning it on itself. The work is affectionate and confrontational at once: a love letter to Texas that recognizes the state's faults, and an examination of how branding becomes identity and how memory gets packaged, sold, and mythologized. His sculptures are held in private collections alongside works by Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe catalog includes a foreword by Beau Moore, Curator of Art at the Museum of the Southwest; an introduction by photographer Wesley Sherow; and \"Popping the Nostalgic Bubble,\" a critical essay by Christine Burger placing Womack's wall sculptures within the lineage of Pop. Photography by Fernando Rojas and Kim Kanode. Written and edited by Michelle Green.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ken Womack","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52017482989885,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9798234121059ita.jpg?v=1784760827","url":"https:\/\/itascabooks.com\/products\/giant-the-art-of-ken-womack","provider":"Itasca Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}