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Woody Guthrie Art Works by Nora Guthrie and Steven Brower (2005, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-100847827380
ISBN-139780847827381
eBay Product ID (ePID)45413509
Product Key Features
Book TitleWoody Guthrie Art Works
Number of Pages300 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGenres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, Composers & Musicians
Publication Year2005
IllustratorGuthrie, Woody, Yes
GenreMusic, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorNora Guthrie, Steven Brower
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight42.3 Oz
Item Length9.8 in
Item Width8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-927398
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal709.2
SynopsisSongwriter, poet, writer, political activist . . . and, perhaps most fundamental to his work but least known about Woody Guthrie, artist. "Contrary to popular mythology, it was with paint brushes in hand, not a guitar, that Guthrie hit the road for California. He had hocked his guitar . . . and it was his artistic skills that he brokered for room and board." So begins Nora's fascinating revelations about her father's vast body of artwork. Other than the drawings for his autobiography, Bound for Glory, few have seen Guthrie's art. This is because much of it is inextricably bound into diaries and work books into which he poured his images, and which are presented here for the first time. Guthrie worked as a commercial artist, illustrating album covers, books, and newspaper columns, and kept a daily record of his life, and of American life, in thousands of pictures. Some complement song-writing in such a fluid way that they often appear interwoven with handwritten lyrics. The stinging honesty, humor, and wit found in his music are also to be found in his art, layering our understanding of his social, political, and spiritual life. In more than 300 examples, his visual creativity is apparent, from political cartoons to bawdy and comical gouaches to children's art to abstract emotional outpourings. Drawing extensively on Guthrie's words, Brower unveils an enhanced portrait of one of America's greatest creative forces., Contrary to popular mythology, it was with paint brushes in hand, not a guitar, that Guthrie hit the road for California. So begins Nora Guthrie's fascinating revelations about her father's vast body of artwork., Woody Guthrie is revealed to be as significant an artist as he was a song writer, poet, writer, and political activist in a collection of more than three hundred examples of never-before-published artworks and journal excerpts. 15,000 first printing.
LC Classification NumberN6537
