Deeds's subtle, meticulous, and wildly imaginative pencil and crayon drawings portray an unusual cast of characters: nineteenth-century dandies, Civil War soldiers, antique cars, fantastic boats and trains, country landscapes dotted with roaming animals, and fanciful architecture. None of these existed in the actual mid-twentieth-century landscape of Deeds's own life, but rather were representations of his inner world-an artist's poignant tribute to a faded past. Deeds lovingly bound his artwork in a cardboard and leather portfolio, a present for his mother. After being accidentally discarded in 1970, the album was rescued from the trash by a young boy and, thirty-six years later, came into the hands of artist and collector Harris Diamant, who provides the book's foreword. The Electric Pencil features all 283 of Deeds's arresting drawings-now avidly collected-done on ledger sheets from State Hospital No. 3 in Nevada, Missouri, and reproduced in the sequence of the original album. The Electric Pencil introduces readers to an astonishing record of one man's unwavering artistic vision in the face of the most inhospitable conditions.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN-13
9781616894542
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221264711
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Electric Pencil: Drawings from inside State Hospital No. 3
Author
James Edward Deeds Jr.
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
243mm
Item Width
209mm
Item Weight
850 g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
James Edward Deeds Jr.
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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