[ePub] The Portrait in Clay: A Technical; Artistic; and Philosophical Journey Toward Understanding the Dynamic and Creative Forces in Portrait Sculpture by Peter Rubino at Arts-Photography

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Finally; after all that waiting; The Future arrived in 1980. Ohio art-rockers Devo had plainly prepared with their 1979 second LP Duty Now for the Future; and now it was go time. Propelled by the new decades high-tech; free-market; pre-AIDS promise; 1980s Freedom of Choice would rocket what Devo co-founder Gerald Casale calls his "alternate universe; hermetically sealed; alien band" both into the arms of the Earthlings and back to their home planet in one scenic trip.Before an artistic and commercial decline that resulted in a 20-year gap between Devos last two studio records; Freedom of Choice made them curious; insurgent superstars; vindicated but ultimately betrayed by the birth of MTV. Their only platinum album represented the best of their unreplicable code: dead-serious tricksters; embracing conformity in order to destroy it with bullet-proof pop sensibility. Through first-hand accounts from the band and musical analysis set against an examination of new waves emergence; the first-ever authorized book about Devo (with a foreword by Portlandias Fred Armisen) explores the groups peak of success; when their hermetic seal cracked open to let in mainstream attention; a legion of new Devotees; and plenty of misunderstandings. "Freedom of Choice was the end of Devo innocencendash;it turned out to be the high point before the s***storm of a total cultural move to the right; the advent of AIDS; and the press starting to figure Devo out and think they had our number;" says Casale. "Its where everything changes."