The Artist Himself : A Rand Holmes Retrospective by Patrick Rosenkranz
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Author: Patrick Rosenkranz
Number of Pages: 324 pages
Published Date: 10 Aug 2010
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Publication Country: Seattle, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781606991701
File size: 13 Mb
File Name: The.Artist.Himself.A.Rand.Holmes.Retrospective.pdf
Download Link: The Artist Himself A Rand Holmes Retrospective
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This book is an intimate and expansive account of a very private man who expressed his deepest feelings in the then disreputable medium of comix. He didn t talk much but he sure wrote a lot, avowed his widow Martha. This biography/retrospective includes generous selections from his private journals and correspondence, family photo albums, sketchbooks, and personal anecdotes from his friends and colleagues. His artistic history began haltingly on the lonely windswept plateau of Edmonton, flourished in Vancouver and San Francisco, and concluded peacefully on Lasqueti Island, a remote backwater in the Straits of Georgia where he lived out his dreams of pioneering and homesteading Holmes life story is richly illustrated with drawings, comic strips, watercolors, and paintings that span his whole career, from the hot rod cartoons he drew as a teenager, dozens of covers for theGeorgia Straight, pornographic cartoons for the sex tabloid Vancouver Star, to complete comic stories from Slow Death Funnies, Dope Comix, All Canadian Beaver, Death Rattle, Grateful Dead Comix, and many more. The full-length Harold Hedd comic novels, Wings Over Tijuana and Hitler s Cocaine are reprinted in their entirety together for the first time. This unique collection of art documents a lifetime of work by one of the most talented artists of his generation. Holmes died in March 2002 from Hodgkin s lymphoma, and his ashes are buried next to the Art Centre he helped build on Lasqueti Island. A retrospective exhibition of his original work was held five years later at the community hall. Author Patrick Rosenkranz met Holmes in his salad days and remained in touch throughout his life. The Holmes family gave him complete access to their art collection and personal files, and encouraged him to tell the whole truth about Rand Holmes life and work. "
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