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Title: Surf Skate and Rock Art of Jim Phillips: 40 Years of Surf, Skate, and Rock Art Author: Jim Phillips Publisher: Schiffer Publishing (usually associated with this title) Genre: Art History / Graphic Design / Counter Culture
If you have seen a yellow t-shirt with a disembodied, cartoon hand ripping apart its own palm as it skateboards, you have seen the "Screaming Hand." Phillips drew this in 1985 for NHS (Santa Cruz Skateboards). It became the Nike Swoosh of skateboarding. Within the surfskateandrockart PDF, you would see the evolution of that hand—from a simple pen sketch to the iconic screaming, bleeding character that terrified and thrilled 80s teenagers.