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Bob bilyeu camblin : an iconoclast in Houston's emerging art scene / Sandra Jensen Rowland.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rowland, Sandra Jensen, 1942- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artists--Texas--Houston--Biography.
- Artists.
- Art teachers--Texas--Houston--Biography.
- Art teachers.
- Painting, American--20th century.
- Painting, American.
- Camblin, Bob Bilyeu, 1928-2010.
- Camblin, Bob Bilyeu.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Denton : University of North Texas Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Book is a biography of the visual artist Bob Bilyeu Camblin (1928-2010). He was a central figure in the emerging Houston art scene of the 1960s and 1970s. He later relocated to the Oregon coast and then New Orleans. He helped establish the art department at Rice University along with Joe Tate and Earl Staley, with whom he collaborated on happenings on the beach in Galveston and on individual works of art. He was mainly known for his water colors but also worked in multi media formats and printing and other media"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Setting the stage for Bob Bilyeu Camblin: Ponca City, Oklahoma
- Gaining a larger artistic context through the military and Kansas City Art Institute
- Fulbright in Italy
- Professing in Sarasota, Florida; Urbana, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; and Salt Lake City, Utah
- Birthing a saint while studying Zen Buddhism in the land of the Mormons
- A point that moves
- Returning to the land of his youth
- Collaborative endeavors
- A new studio and a collaborative scaffolding backyard project
- Barter Show to Wunderkammer
- Figure fours, fish, and friends
- The aesthetic appeal of unemphatic landscape
- Life after life in Academia
- Little Egypt Enterprises and Cerling Etching Studio
- Cast of characters: Cindy Claus to Santa Claus
- Venice in his own words and through his unique vision
- Leaving the canals and returning to the bayous
- The transience of life: Vanitas
- The last years in Texas
- Big Al looms large
- Sojourner: Having no destination, I am never lost.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-57441-789-4
- OCLC:
- 1187222091
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