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Book SynopsisA colorful, fantastical, and musical body of work by the painter Bob Thompson 'Thompson, who finally seems to be on fame's doorstep, invents in much the same way: he makes you feel how it might have felt to see a picture of an angel for the first time.' The New Yorker Influenced by jazz music, Bob Thompson painted spirited, colorful compositions that feature an interplay of bodies, allegories, and natural landscapes while reconfiguring European masterworks. Though his career as a painter spanned only a brief period, from 1958 to his untimely death at age twenty-eight in 1966, Thompson left behind a singular and influential body of figurative work that remains vitally resonant. Looking at his particular consideration of color, line, and figurationdeveloped during a period when abstraction was the dominant trend in American artthis intimate exhibition catalogue, the seventh volume in the Clarion series, pays homage to the friction Thompson generated between his proximity to and deviat
