Tin man
By: Charlie Lucas ; photographs by Chip Cooper ; with an introduction by Georgine Clark ; foreword by Robert Farris Thompson.
Contributors: Cooper, Chip.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780817316815
Subjects: Lucas, Charlie, -- 1951- -- Themes, motives; Lucas, Charlie, -- 1951-; Outsider artists -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: Charlie Lucas is a self-taught artist. Although he has made art since childhood, only since a debilitating accident in 1984 did Lucas turn to art seriously as a form of personal expression. He has since become recognized nationally and internationally as a great innovator in the field of American folk art.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Introduction; title: 1. Some beginnings; title: 2. The story of the Tin man; title: 3. Mixed memories; title: 4. School, art, and suicide; title: 5. Leaving home; title: 6. Florida; title: 7. Mad enough to kill; title: 8. Something broke; title: 9. Redemption; title: 10. Naming art; title: 11. Spirits on top of spirits; title: 12. Influences; title: 13. Colors; title: 14. Commerce; title: 15. Discipline; title: Appendix.