Art Chantry Speaks by Art Chantry

Author:Art Chantry [Rochester, Monica René]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781627310130
Publisher: Feral House

The book, Albert Hurter: He Drew As He Pleased, is a very rare and expensive book to now collect. Illustrator Scott McDougall found a copy and showed it to me. I immediately photocopied the whole thing. It blew me away. That started a two-decade-long search to find a copy.

One of the things that strikes me about Hurter’s work is how many now familiar and iconic images exist in his sketches in this little book. I assume that this book MUST have drifted through the Los Angeles creative community for some time. There is no way that this stuff did not pass the eyes of some of the underground “geniuses” that later became the lions of the new outsider underground world. Being an industry town, copies of this book were seen and emulated—just like the Disney crew paid him to do, to sketch and inspire.

Why do I point this out? Well, Von Dutch MUST HAVE seen this book. Robert Crumb MUST HAVE seen this book. Roger Corman MUST HAVE seen this book. There are just too many iconographic images later popularized by underground superstars. This book is probably one of the single most influential compilations in the history of subcultural America, and it only seems to have drifted through L.A.

I know, I know. These are really big claims to make, but when you research the history of this Albert Hurter person and look at the contents of this book, and trace the path of the language and icons presented, it leaves you with some questions. This is my answer: This was a hugely influential volume. It was seen and emulated by scores of creative nutjobs who later became iconographic inspirations for American pop culture language. This festering process must have only happened in Los Angeles, the hub of a massive American trash culture wheel slowly turning the rest of the world. Go figger.

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