Musician, composer, and conceptual artist Mark Mothersbaugh (DEVO) has announced a new book called Apotropaic Beatnik Graffiti, a collection of neo-dada stream of conscious visual poetry that comes out on March 12 via Blank Industries publishing.
The visual poetry collection will be a hardcover art book format and is described as a lifelong project of the author.
"I remember seeing human wreckage sprawled on the sidewalks of downtown Akron,” Mothersbaugh says in a press release. “My mom would hold my hand and try to hurry me past a mumbling, shouting man as I was entranced, trying to decipher the meaning of what he was saying. I felt like he might know something the rest of us didn't and he was trying to share it.” Mothersbaugh continues, “Because of my early-age eyesight impairments, I knew there were things happening all around us that vision kept us from seeing. Maybe there were things we weren't hearing as well. Later on, I drew comparisons of these raw emotional forms of expression to the work of beats, freeform jazz, and artists like Captain Beefheart and Sun Ra, all of which heavily influenced DEVO's curiosity in pushing the boundaries of what was considered normal."
In addition to his work with DEVO, Mothersbaugh has scored approximately 150 films, television shows, video games, and commercials.
