Harmony Korine

Consisting of 49 photographs from Korine's private archive, Pigxote reveals a largely unexamined side of the artist's creative process. It depicts a mysterious young girl moving through a televised landscape of intuitively arranged "experiential moments," and offers further insight into the poetic mind of one of Nashville's finest sons.

Harmony Korine seems to have a cult following that views him as this artistic genius. I didn't see any of that in this book. It did have some poignant observations, but overall, this was the ramblings of an eccentric, maladjusted, drug induced person who loves the power of the shock value.

Here is a quote from Harmony about his "artistic...nonsense", Things that don’t always add up, jokes with no punch lines, or things where there are pages missing in all the right places. Or maybe show more it’s not nonsense so much as an imperfection, things that have an emotional sense, rather than any kind of laid-out logic or standard set of rules. Things that are awkward. I just never really cared about perfect sense. I like perfect nonsense.

Is he shooting for Andy Kaufman? show less

These eight limited-run fanzines were originally created between 1992 and 1999 and were sold out of the Alleged and Andrea Rosen galleries in New York City. Collected together for the first time, all of the original content is represented—low-concept, hilarious juxtapositions of words; scribbles and doodles; lists; monologues; free verse; jokes; innuendo; and both fake and real interviews. They blur the lines between fantasy and reality, and are often prankster in nature and laugh-out-loud show more funny. With weird musings, fake celebrity gossip, and hastily drawn art, this collection is a must have for fans of the authors and lovers of pop culture. show less

Harmony Korine shocked a nation with his first movie script, 1995's Kids, about drug-addled adolescents wallowing in ennui and sex. Arbiters of culture and morality wrung their hands, but two first-time actors in Kids--Chloë Sevigny and Rosario Dawson--found longtime fame in the ensuing years. Korine himself went on to direct several audaciously polarizing feature films. This book, The Trash Humpers, is based on the photographic research for Korine's latest directorial project of the same show more name. Released on lo-fi VHS and edited in part while blindfolded--or so Korine attests--the 78-minute movie follows a gang of miscreants who roam the streets of Nashville, molesting garbage bins and causing random mayhem. It's an "ode to vandalism and the creativity of the destructive force," Korine has said. "Sometimes there's a real beauty to blowing things up, to smashing and burning. It could be almost as enlightening as the building of an object." show less