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- Artists
- Mars, Chris
 - Edition Details
| Year: | 2008 | | Class: | Book | | Status: | Official |
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TOLERANCE (Hardcover, 160 pages, 2008) is the debut monograph from Chris Mars. Featuring 159 full color paintings, numerous essays by the artist, and introduction by Julius Marcia, the book, published by Billy Shire Fine Arts Press/Last Gasp is printed in democratic South Korea on recycled paper using vegetable-based inks and varnish.
Approximately 12-1/4 x 10-1/4 x 3/4 inches, the book is shipped in a padded envelope. You may request your book be signed; however signed books MUST be personalized, so please include a name or names in the “Notes” section of your order form and allow additional shipping time.
From Lavender:
Reminiscent of both the German Expressionist painter Otto Dix (1891-1969) and Hieronymous Bosch (c. 1450-1516), Chris Mars’s haunting and often-repellent works are nonetheless mesmerizing. To the question, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Mars long ago answered, “Yes. I am.” From the beginning of his career, Mars (born 1961) has been motivated by his older brother, diagnosed with schizophrenia, and incarcerated at 16. Mars wrestles with issues of tolerance, acceptance, and exclusion, along with the beauty inherent and still surviving in the flawed. - E.B. Boatner
From Boing Boing:
Chris' work is undeniably strident in its political message, but the rawness of the anger, the clarity of the shouting, is so compelling, and its all rendered with such admirable technical virtuosity. This guy is definitely the George Grosz of the 21st century. Like Grosz, he manages to render macabre beauty in the most staggering depictions of ugliness and horror. - Gareth Branwyn
From Vita MN:
Mars is the art world's patron saint of monsters. In interviews, he frequently cites his older brother Joe as the inspiration for his work. At age 15, Joe was institutionalized for schizophrenia, and Mars grew up watching him endure the brutal humiliations of the 1960s mental-health system. Deeply troubled by how willing society is to cast away its misfits, Mars has made it his mission to win back dignity for anyone who's been labeled a freak. In his paintings, he celebrates the disfigured, using startling effects of light to anoint them as angels. - Gregory J. Scott
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