For years, finger painted art was dismissed as juvenile. Arits who did paint with their digits got neither recognition nor respect. At the same tie, they sturggled against what they saw as the base, corrupting influence of artists painting with brushes, aerosol cans, genitals, computers, and other 'extremities' which, in the view of the gigitists, only isolated the painter from the paint.
Then on April 1, 1994, Dr. Dave exhibited "The Mark of the Digit", a 12,300 page hand painted manuscript book establishing broad intellectual underpinnings and defining the aesthetic possibilities of paint by pinky. Initially jeered as a "Manifesto of Mush" Dr. Dave's Colorful prose resounded a call to battle for digitists of all stripes, electrified critics, and a "Digital Art" movement was born. This new paperback edition, made possible by grants from the Congressional Foundation for Unconscionable Aesthetics, is sure to spread Dr. Dave's painted workd to a whole new Audience.
"A long overdue recognition of how primal fingerpainting truly is: tactile - in fact utterly fecal - yet immediate and compelling in ways the more highly refined art forms can never expect to be..." - The Boston Glob "... puts to rest all previous 'brushstroke theories'... establishes more clearly than any previous thinker the fundamentally messy nature of human intelligence..." - The Cleveland Paint Drooler.
