Robert Williams, the Father of Exponential Imagination

Robert Williams, the Father of Exponential Imagination Drawings, Paintings, & Sculptures

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Publisher's Synopsis

This is a comprehensive, career-spanning, collection of iconic painter and comic creator Robert William's fine art, including every one of his oil paintings, along with a selection of his drawings, sculptures, and multimedia works. Williams pursued a career as a fine artist before moving into the rebellious, anti-war circles of early underground comix, as one of the celebrated Zap cartoonists. Featuring a new art manifesto and foreword by Williams himself (the former of whom brought the term 'lowbrow' into the fine arts lexicon), as well as tons of rare photos and ephemera.

About the Publisher

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn?t know existed or wouldn?t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values.

Book information

ISBN: 9781683960270
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 759.13
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 450
Weight: 5502g
Height: 371mm
Width: 423mm
Spine width: 52mm