| A Life in Pictures Main Edition Contributor(s): Gray, Alasdair (Author) |
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ISBN: 1841956406 ISBN-13: 9781841956404 Publisher: Canongate Books OUR PRICE: $31.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - Artists' Books - Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2010537717 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 9.9" W x 10.5" (3.60 lbs) 297 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Scottish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Alasdair Gray is known throughout the world for his writing, but he is also a highly regarded artist who not only illustrates and designs his own books, but has created many beautiful and intriguing portraits, paintings, posters and murals. Alasdair started painting and writing from an early age, and in his seventies he's still vigorously doing both. In this autopictography he gathers together the work that has mattered most to him over the years, and weaves the story of his life through and around these pictures in his own unmistakable style. A beautifully and copiously illustrated book, designed by himself, this is life as seen by one of the millennium's most entertaining and wry creative geniuses. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gray, Alasdair: - Since 1981, when Alasdair Gray's first novel (Lanark: A Life in Four Books) was published by Canongate, he has published twenty books, most of them novels and short stories. In his own words, 'Alasdair Gray is a fat, spectacled, balding, increasingly old Glaswegian pedestrian who has mainly lived by writing and designing books, most of them fiction.' |