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Madonna Of The Toast | 
| Author: Buzz Poole
Publisher: Mark Batty Publisher
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 540316
Media: Paperback
Pages: 96
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 6.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 0977282775
Dewey Decimal Number: 133.334
EAN: 9780977282777
ASIN: 0977282775
Publication Date: February 25, 2007
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All over the world people cherish different beliefs. Regardless if these beliefs are rooted in religion or popular culture, a true believer cannot be swayed. So, when Mother Teresa surfaces on a cinnamon bun, the manifestation turns into an event that attracts global attention. Madonna of the Toast documents what happens when religious and secular icons appear on such things as pancakes, potato chips and cows. From highly publicized examples of these phenomena (Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese) to previously unpublicized instances of these visitations (Jar Jar Binks on a shed door, Jesus on a mandolin), all of the objects featured in the book exemplify the power of visual communication. As Buzz Poole writes, "Whether on the level of sacrosanct devotion or pop culture kitsch, these forms become as relevant as the worlds finest art because they compel people to react; the objects in this book, emblazoned with faces and symbols recognized the world over, have been appraised at stunningly high sums, been toured around the globe and have inspired people to travel, pray and steal." Every example consists of colorful images accompanied by intimate, remarkable stories that relay the personal and cultural ramifications of these objects, every single one of them encapsulate very real aspects of popular culture.
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Potato Chip Celebrities and Grilled-Cheese Madonnas August 22, 2009
Joanna Daneman (Middletown, DE USA)
I've long been fascinated by the phenomenon of people who flock to apparitions of Madonnas in sandwich toast and on window condensations. Buzz Poole writes a set of essays and interviews with people who collect potato chips that look like celebrities and the woman who auctioned off half a grilled cheese that had a Madonna appear in the scorch marks.
The book is filled with pictures, some small as the resolution or focus was not suitable to enlarge them more than a postage stamp. Some are amazing; a Lenin-like poster apparition in a shower curtain, a cat with a Rasputin in his ear. But the essays and interviews are what makes this book so entertaining. This is a very fun little book.
Entertaining May 14, 2007
Mary (Indiana)
Very well done research. Buzz Poole is an enjoyable read. Madonna of the Toast is a great collection of everyday phenomonon that just pass us by without notice.
'We see what we want to see' February 6, 2007
Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Buzz Poole (author of the brilliant GREEN DESIGN) brings his rather daunting gifts of communication both visual and verbal to yet another interesting release from the consistently creative Mark Batty Publisher in New York. This time Poole turns from ecological investigation to quasi-spiritual investigation and the results are pages of images that push the imagination and sense of humor cum fascination to new limits.
Poole opens his pictorial series of essays with a definition of the term 'Pereidolia' - 'a psychological phenomenon elicited by random visual stimuli being mistakenly perceived as recognizable'. He then personalizes this universal phenomenon by entering the world of daydreaming, a space and arrested time when we stare at clouds or bits and pieces of detritus and find faces staring back at us. Some would call them miracles, some signs from on high (or down below!), and some as mechandisable fragments for financial gain.
Poole doesn't just create his own experiences: Poole travels to meet people and places where images (not unlike the shroud of Turin) have been celebrated. We meet Myrtle and her potato chips, many of which hold images of the likes of Bob Hope's profile; shower curtains with Lenin's image as clear as a ghost; a Michelin-mimicking carrot; a Holstein cow whose black spots coalesce into the image of Mickey Mouse; endless images of Christ on mandolins, frying pans, pierogi; a pancake with the incidental likeness of Pope John Paul II; fish with Arabic signs from Allah; a melted chocolate mound resembling the Virgin Mary - the list goes on.
The pleasure in reading this book is a mixture of chuckling about what others have convinced the public is 'real' and the very tender way in which Poole captures the images and respectfully explains their derivation. This is not a book that denigrates anyone's belief: this is a book that merely shares them with a wider audience. As we are coming to expect from Poole, here is a writer/journalist/photographer/designer who has a keen eye for the little bit of paraphernalia that make our world tick! Grady Harp, February 07
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