Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #829579 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Customer Reviews

Everything
In reponse, to Shannon David Earle review...As I was reading the book again last night I couldn't help but be amazed at how everything was so easy to read-and at the same time so illogical and chaotic. Something only Carson could make work. This book is critical for any surfer's library as the book not only is extremely well written, but it also incorporates the art it talks about into its page design. Buy it.

Stecyk does it again
After elevating the development of skateboarding from criminal activity to its proper place in modern culture with Dogtown and Z-Boys Stecyk, a long-time contributor to The Surfer's Journal, presents the artifacts of surfing culture in an equally intelligent manner. This book is developed from the recent exhibition at the Laguna Arts Museum. A must have for anyone interested in surfing. Steyck has come a long way from epoxying bronzed roadkill to major California roadways. He's an artist too.

Surf Culture - The Art History of Surfing
Surf Culture is an amazing marriage of words and pictures. David Carson's "interpretation" is pitch-perfect, a complete masterpiece. It's all here: an historical perspective, tons of full bleed imagery and contemporary artistic musings on the aesthetics of surfing. I suppose the "hater" with the negative review would propose a clean rectilinear design, too bad the whole thing just went right over his head.