34 contributors—including Jim Shaw,
Tony Oursler and
Cary Loren—discuss childhood, adolescence, being a student in California in the 1970s,
Mike Kelley, comic books, drawing, painting,
California, the hippies, LSD, Charles Manson, the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon,
My Mirage and
Oism, Born Again Christians, catechism, transhumanism, cyborgs, Scientology and the Church of Satan, Terrence Malick, the
Beat Generation, counter-culture, Gilbert Shelton, Robert Crumb, Janis Joplin and Basil Wolverton, Michigan, Ann Arbor, proto- punk, Destroy All Monsters, MC5, John Sinclair, and Tiki culture.
Works by Mathilde Agius, Joan Braun,
Bertrand Dezoteux, Golgotha, groupe CCC – Alice Gavin and Valentin Bigel and École Duperré Paris students, Jérémy Piningre, Jim Shaw, Pierre Vanni.
Founded in 2015 by artist Clotilde Viannay,
L'Incroyable magazine is dedicated to
adolescence and retraces the teenage years of a personality, examining the cultural context of his youth.
The magazine is extended by
the “
Mini” series. Each book immerses itself in the youth of artists through an interview about their teenage years.
Jim Shaw (born 1952 in Midland, Michigan, lives and works in Los Angeles) is an atypical figure in the
Californian art world, sharing with
Paul McCarthy and
Mike Kelley a similar desire to produce an immersive visual oeuvre aimed at exploring the dark side of the American psyche.
