Beautiful/Decay

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Beautiful/Decay
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CategoriesArt magazine
Founder
  • Amir Fallah
  • Jay Littleton
Year founded1996 (1996)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Website beautifuldecay.com

Beautiful/Decay is an art magazine created by Amir Fallah and Jay Littleton. [1] First published as a black-and-white zine at a Kinko's in 1996, [2] it was resurrected as a full-fledged magazine in 2001. [3] In his Basics Illustration series, author and artist Mark Wigan named it an essential magazine resource for "global contexts". [4]

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Footnotes

  1. Blackshaw & Farrelly 2009, p. 173.
  2. Farrelly & Dorrian 2007, p. 62.
  3. Beautiful/Decay n.d.
  4. Wigan 2009, p. 172.

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