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World of Men, © Lou Beach 2009

Lou Beach is best known as a collage artist and illustrator whose imagery, in the tradition of Hannah Hoch, John Heartfield, and Joseph Cornell plus a good dose of René Magritte and Salvador Dali, is always witty, with a compelling narrative and aura of mystery. In my career as an art director I’ve known and collaborated with Lou for years and recently became addicted to his Facebook status updates, where he publishes snippets of original fiction. I was immediately struck by how closely his skill with words tracks to his talents as a visual artist. Some stories appear in serial format like a soap opera, others are standalone bits, and all are irresistible reads, feverish little jewels with a dark noir-ish glint. (more…)