Gas Tank City / Andrew Holmes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holmes, Andrew, 1947- artist.

Contributor:

Crow, Thomas E., 1948- contributor.

Fisher, Mark, 1947-2013, contributor.

Price, Cedric, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vehicles in art.

Drawing, British.

Photo-realism.

Transportation--California--Los Angeles--Pictorial works.

Transportation.

photorealist (style).

Physical Description:

160 pages : illustrations ; 31 x 31 cm

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Circa Press ; 2024.

Summary:

"Andrew Holmes is renowned for his hyper­re­al coloured pen­cil draw­ings. His sub­ject mat­ter is the fixed and mobile ser­vice infra­struc­ture that sus­tains the city of Los Ange­les. The gleam­ing trucks, auto­mo­biles, and motor­cy­cles that tra­verse the high­ways, and the indus­tri­al arma­ture of stor­age tanks, ser­vice sta­tions and truck stops to be found beyond the city's edge are, for Holmes, the great­est arte­facts of a soci­ety based on oil. Over the past 50 years, he has cap­tured scenes from this unique­ly Amer­i­can land­scape in painstak­ing detail. Along with com­men­taries by Thomas E Crow, Mark Fish­er, Cedric Price, and Holmes him­self, Gas Tank City presents 100 of Holmes's Los Ange­les draw­ings. Togeth­er they evoke a lost civilisation." --Publisher's description.

Contents:

Seeing the idea / Andrew Holmes

Homeless representation / Thomas E. Crow

Gas Tank City : drawings 1974-2024

The romance of anonymity / Mark Fisher

The havest of a quiet eye / Cedric Price.

ISBN:

1911422472

9781911422471

OCLC:

1427565581