{"product_id":"a-micronaut-in-the-wide-world-the-imaginative-life-and-times-of-graham-percy-9781869404703","title":"A Micronaut in the Wide World: The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.","brand":"Auckland University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53191420674391,"sku":"9781869404703","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-micronaut-in-the-wide-world-the-imaginative-life-and-times-of-graham-percy-9781869404703","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}