{"product_id":"tin-man-9780817316815","title":"Tin Man","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharlie Lucas is a self-taught artist. Featuring more than 200 vivid color photographs - of the artist at work, his studio environments, and his creations - this title presents his troubled and impoverished childhood, his self-awakening to the depths of his own artistic vision, and his perseverance through years of derision and misapprehension.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharlie Lucas's sculptures are like kudzu: they remold the silhouette of an object, casting it in a different light. His subjects are the African mask, the slave, chains from the past, and the industrial future. His totem-like figures trace Alabama's Native American culture though the blood-baths and bloodstreams, wrought and welded in iron and steel. His junkyard complex comprising acres of rusting machine bits, sculptures, and the occasional grazing cow, is as terrifying as it is beautiful, and it reminds us what happens to man and his inventions when nature has 'had enough.' - NALL","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038562976087,"sku":"9780817316815","price":38.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780817316815.jpg?v=1750940688","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tin-man-9780817316815","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}