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Publisher
Soberscove Press
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Cuban American painter Gustavo Ojeda (1958-1989) was known primarily for his lush and meditative urban nightscapes, which brought him notoriety in the legendary downtown New York art scene of the 1980s. He exhibited alongside artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, David Wojnarowicz, Tom Bianchi, and Luis Frangella, before passing away from AIDS-related complications in 1989, just two weeks shy of his 31st birthday. Ojeda's exhibited paintings...
Author
Publisher
Wave Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A book of drawings and text by Renee Gladman"--
"These sentences-they-will begin having already been sentences somewhere else, and this will mark their afterlife, and this will be their debut." So begins Renee Gladman's latest interdisciplinary project, Plans for Sentences. A tour de force of dizzying brilliance, Gladman's book blurs the distinctions between text and image, recognizing that drawing can be a form of writing, and vice versa: a generative...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
During the coronavirus quarantine, legendary Hellboy creator Mike Mignola posted original pencil sketches online and auctioned off the art to raise money for José Andres' World Central Kitchen. The sketches went viral and were the talk of the comics internet. Now those sketches are published in print for the first time, with all profits going to the World Central Kitchen. This new, oversized hardcover collection is a must have for Mignola readers...
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Before he embarked on his writing career, Dave Eggers was classically trained as a draftsman and painter. He then spent many years as a professional illustrator and graphic designer before turning to writing full-time. More recently, in order to raise money for ScholarMatch, his college-access nonprofit, he returned to visual art, and the results have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the country. Usually involving the pairing of an animal...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In an era before photography could capture the excitement and drama of battle, illustrators known as "Special Artists"- among them such celebrated draftsmen as Winslow Homer and Thomas Nast- created some of the most important, influential and enduring images of the Civil War. Reporting to newspapers like 'Harper's Weekly' and 'Frank Leslie's Illustrated News,' the Specials were prototypes for contemporary combat photographers. They brought a visceral...
Author
Publisher
Getty Research Institute
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This book features reproductions of 143 drawings by 150 Los Angeles graffiti artists that were done as part of a project collaborative project known as the Getty Graffiti Black Book. An introductory essay provides context for this black book and examines the Los Angeles graffiti scene"--
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