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The secret painter / Joe Tucker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tucker, Joe, 1982- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tucker, Eric, 1932-2018.
- Tucker, Eric.
- Painters--Great Britain--Biography.
- Painters.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 212 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates. : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh, UK : Canongate, 2025.
- Summary:
- Joe Tucker's Uncle Eric was a beloved yet unconventional figure throughout Joe's life. A shambolically dressed man who lived with his mother for almost eighty years, he had an almost compulsive need to charm strangers with working men's club comedy routines, and appeared to exist only for daily trips to the bookie - and yet had also amassed over five hundred of his own remarkable paintings without anyone ever realising his achievements. Towards the end of his life, Eric requested an exhibition of his work. As Joe and his family sorted through hundreds of paintings of street scenes, circus and theatre performers, and busy pubs, they began to ask more questions about Eric's life: why had this fanatically sociable man never left his mother's home? Had Eric ever experienced love when he painted it so beautifully? And what had driven him to create so much, yet share it so rarely?
- Contents:
- A portrait of the artist as an old man
- Would the man from the New York Times like some sandwiches?
- Uncle Eric
- You've gotta watch these buggers
- What's our Eric doing there?
- The lady in the photograph
- We need to talk about Norman
- I'm not good enough yet
- The final (sort of) wish
- The dreams of youth
- The other Eric Tucker
- Terraced House Tate.
- ISBN:
- 9781805300663
- 1805300660
- OCLC:
- 1449649431
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