Book Description
When Queen sang, "Fat-bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round" in 1978, they probably weren't imagining Julie Verhoeven doodling her fabulous, skanky, preciously funky drawings to their music--but they probably wouldn't have minded, either. Famous for her illustrations, which appear regularly in British periodicals like Self Service, Dazed & Confused, The Face, and The Independent on Saturday, and in fashion designs and catwalk sets for Louis Vuitton, Martine Sitbon, Cacharel, and Richard Tyler, Julie Verhoeven here presents 24 drawings dedicated to her favorite pop songs, the music she listens to when she's drawing her psychedelic, 60s-cum-70s post-punk collages. From Frank Black's Abstract Pain and Elvis Presley's Way Down, to the Violent Femmes' Add It Up and Olivia Newton-John's Xanadu, Verhoeven transforms an auditory experience into a sexy, trashy, and absolutely pop looking experience.
Introduction by Bethan Cole.
Hardcover, 8.26 x 10.25 in., 48 pages, 24 color illustrations
