This Bakshi retrospective book entitled Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi (The Force Behind Fritz the Cat, Mighty Mouse, Cool World, and The Lord of the Rings) was release April 1 of this year.
Here’s a tiny excerpt from the interview on BoldType:
BT: Do you see some of the same shifting values [as there were in culture post world war II] when it comes to art?
RB: My whole thing is to just move on. You have to try different things, change styles, test yourself, to try different genres: I went from the blackness of Coonskin , which was largely about race, to the science-fiction style of Wizards , which dealt with the Holocaust. That’s what the challenge of art is all about. Artists have to keep moving on. You have to grow as a person, your reading habits have to change, everything has to go along with changing. And what I despise about Walt Disney is he never moved on.
You MUST read the article to hear Ralphy boy go on to rip Disney a new one.
via | BoldType
These are all by author Barnaby Conrad:
Absinthe: History in a Bottle
The Martini: An Illustrated History of an American Classic
Ok maybe I want to read these because they are about booze. But I saw Barnaby Conrad on SF local TV talking about these books and they sound really interesting. He has books about a lot of different American (mostly Californian) cultural phenomenon. Cigars, Pan-Am airlines, and more.
I learned that Barbara Streisand started around here in the North Beach area. The club owner said something like “She’s got a nose like a trombone buy boy can she sing.”
Anyway, about the Absinthe book, he talked about going down to the bar / cafe called Absinthe in Hayes Valley where he went recently. I used to love walking past that bar and saying out loud “Oh hey, let’s stop here and get some Absinthe guys! Oh … oh wait we can’t … they don’t actually HAVE any. It’s just called that. Oh … well that’s cool.” I just wanted to see the reaction of the people on the patio. Mostly they were thinking the same thing. But now, Absinthe is legal!
Absinthe is unexplored territory for me. Perhaps it is time.
ยป 30,000 Years of Art – Phaidon
Hardback ISBN 9780714847894
