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Babel.
LIBRA Special N6537.H657 A4 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Houser, Jim.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Houser, Jim--Catalogs.
- Houser, Jim.
- Painting, American--21st century--Catalogs.
- Painting, American.
- Graffiti--United States--Catalogs.
- Graffiti.
- Street art--United States--Catalogs.
- Street art.
- Outsider art--United States--Catalogs.
- Outsider art.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Corte Madera, CA : Gingko Press in association with R77, [2005]
- Summary:
- Self-taught mixed media artist Jim Houser's creative journey began as a child when he started drawing in sketchbooks brought home to him by his father. Over the years, driven by impulse and inspired by words as well as the perspective that his childhood drawings provide. Houser developed a style combining words, phrases and existential story fragments with crisp, colorful paintings on surfaces ranging from canvas to walls to skateboards and more. Houser forces us to re-examine these often wellworn words and discover their lost, faded and even alternate meanings amidst visions of ten gallon hats, snaggletooth snakes, preternatural beigns and visualized natural elements. Jim Houser is a Philadelphia-based artist who was a founding member of the collective Space 1026 and an avid skateboarder who designs skate decks for Toy Machine.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Houser, Jim. Babel.
- ISBN:
- 158423198X
- 9781584231981
- OCLC:
- 61452021
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