A Micronaut in the Wide World : The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy Hardback
by Gregory O'Brien
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This is the story of a micronaut. Artist, designer and illustrator Graham Percy travelled far and built a career on the closely observed detail.
Born in Taranaki in 1938, Percy spent apprentice years in Auckland before moving to London, where with his photographer-partner Mari Mahr he created a workshop-home, a microcosm of the outside world.
Here fellow-venturer Gregory O’Brien presents an account of Graham Percy’s life and art, by way of motorbike and hot-air balloon, through sketches and bookshelves, touching on childhood losses and adult nostalgia.
Including some of Percy’s most compelling drawings, A Micronaut in the Wide World showcases his early design work, vivid children’s book illustration and thriving mature art.
The drawings reveal Percy’s passion for the small and hand-drawn; convey quirky remembered and imagined histories; and feature a cast of curious characters, from storks and trainee running targets to Commedia dell’Arte characters and illustrious composers.
In its vivid, exuberant detail — alphabets and elephants, red lettuces and homesick kiwi, the Hungarian navy and the starry skies of the southern hemisphere — A Micronaut in the Wide World is a stimulating rediscovery of a remarkable artist.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:184 pages, 200 black and white and colour illustrations
- Publisher:Auckland University Press
- Publication Date:01/02/2011
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- ISBN:9781869404703
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:184 pages, 200 black and white and colour illustrations
- Publisher:Auckland University Press
- Publication Date:01/02/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781869404703