Joseph's Easel: The Rise of an American Picasso - Couverture souple

Kaiser, Larry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1535125489 ISBN 13 : 9781535125482

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

This is the first book in Larry Kaiser's Joseph’s Easel series. It is an amusing, entertaining, enlightening and important vision of the mature artist, the “artist in full”. Javi Attila Gran-Cognac, the troubled hero of Kaiser's novel, risks his life, his sanity, his loves, his legacy and his fortune down in the corpse-lined trenches on the long, bloody firing line of world politics. In Joseph's Easel, the Rise of an American Picasso, a precocious child learns that his drawings have the power to cause powerful villains in the adult world the kind of problems that make them want the young artist dead. Javi Attila Gran-Cognac, after surviving a botched assassination attempt, must then grow up an orphan. It is at the lowest point of his life when he realizes that no artist, regardless of his or her professional shimmer, can ever become an ARTIST IN FULL while ignoring, glossing over, dodging the politics, the manipulations, the guile, the circumspect—the gods and devils—which shape the world every artist paints. It is at that point that political paintings, and the leverage that powerful visual ridicule can exert for change, become his mission in life. But he is destined to learn that there are consequences for provoking powerful people. The gods and devils of this world have the ability and the will to paint with blood. Joseph's Easel is bold, it’s beautiful, it’s tragic, it’s hilarious, it’s provoking; it is political art in its own right.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Larry Kaiser has written five other books, all biographies. Joseph’s Easel, the Rise of an American Picasso is his first published work of fiction. The author grew up in Indiana, went to college in Texas, Mexico, Oregon and Indiana, served as an infantry officer in Vietnam and taught public school for six years before becoming a fulltime artist. His career painting traditional, non-political paintings for art dealers spanned more than thirty years, and included a three-year stint living and painting in a junkyard. The political paintings Kaiser created during those thirty years all have been withheld from the market until 2015. His agent in Beverly Hills, California last year, made the first sale of one of Kaiser’s political paintings titled Genesis 3: 1-6 to an unknown buyer during Art Basel in Miami, Florida. When he is not sailing his boat, the Santa Fe, off the Florida coast, Kaiser lives near Indianapolis, Indiana.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1535125489
• ISBN 13: 9781535125482
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 346
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg