A bizarre imagination married to a craft that falls little short of the sublime placed Richard Shirley Smith outside the artistic mainstream from the start. Over the past 40 years, in his life and his art, he has inhabited a world of fabulous curiosities and transformations, supplied by the idiosyncrasies of a scholarly and labyrinthine mind. He revels in elaborate settings, crumbling Italianate architecture, and romantic decay. Strange objects, veiled statues, insects, and ambiguous beasts pose like actors on a stage. This ...
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A bizarre imagination married to a craft that falls little short of the sublime placed Richard Shirley Smith outside the artistic mainstream from the start. Over the past 40 years, in his life and his art, he has inhabited a world of fabulous curiosities and transformations, supplied by the idiosyncrasies of a scholarly and labyrinthine mind. He revels in elaborate settings, crumbling Italianate architecture, and romantic decay. Strange objects, veiled statues, insects, and ambiguous beasts pose like actors on a stage. This splendid monograph contains 150 color reproductions of his paintings and collages. These are enhanced by essays that lead the reader more deeply into a profoundly fascinating and beautiful theater of the imagination.
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