Peter Saul - Professional Artist Correspondence (light wear)

Peter Saul: Professional Artist Correspondence, 1945–1976, edited by Dan Nadel / ISBN 9781942884583 / 272-page paperback with flaps, from Bad Dimension Press / 30 illustrations / minor wear to covers / last copies *** An epistolary history of postwar American art through the weird and wonderful mind of Peter Saul A New York Times critics' pick | Best Art Books 2020 Painter Peter Saul (born 1934), considered one of the founding fathers of pop art but certainly not reducible to that movement, is best known for his cartoonish paintings in Day-Glo hues satirizing American culture. Saul was born and raised in Northern California, attended Washington University, lived in Europe from 1956 to 1964, and then settled in Marin County from 1964 to 1976, where he found a community and began to make his reputation. The story of Saul’s development in these crucial years is narrated by the artist himself in Peter Saul: Professional Artist Correspondence, 1945–1976. The letters in this volume, first to