William Hawkins: Paintings |
|
|
|
| Title: | William Hawkins: Paintings |
| Author: | Frank Maresca
Roger Riccio |
| Publisher: | Knopf |
| Type: | Book / Hardcover |
| Publication Date: | 04 November, 1997 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0679450750 / 9780679450757 |
| List Price: | $45.00 |
| You Save: | $0.50 |
| Amazon Price: | $44.50 (via Amazon marketplace seller) |
|
| |
The HTML code below can be pasted onto your web-site, your MySpace page, or blog - or any number of similar places - to create a link to this page:
If, instead of a text link, you'd like to create a link to this page which will display the book cover, if it's available, then the code below will do exactly that:
Check for the same book at these other US book sites:
• [ Abebooks ]
• [ Alibris ]
• [ Barnes & Noble ]
• [ Half.com ]
• [ Powells ]
… or check UK bookstores
|
Editorial Review / Publisher's Information:
Product Description
The first book of paintings--122 reproductions--by a brilliant twentieth-century folk artist: a self-taught master, who began to paint when he was ten years old and won national recognition at the age of eighty-five.
William Hawkins was born and raised on a small Kentucky farm. Needing to express himself, he used whatever materials were at hand--glossy enamels (ordinary house paints), large pieces of Masonite, heavy paper or cardboard rescued from trash heaps. He painted continuously, earning his living as a truck driver, among other things. His intense, wondrous, quirky paintings are filled with images--startling and playful--that derive from an unruly but inspired sense of freedom and humor. Here are wild animals--an elephant with a striped tusk and trunk...a stag, wide-eyed and startled, looking out from a masklike face; cityscapes; historical and modern landmark architecture; images made from photographs; a red Ferris wheel; a short humpbacked creature with a cone hat, a beak, and a single, pasted-on eye.
Handsomely designed and produced, William Hawkins chronicles the life and work of one of our most important folk artists.
|
Other Items You May Enjoy:
Browse Books From These Related Subjects:
|
|
