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Go Figure

Figurative Social Surrealist Paintings

ISBN-13: 9798875000973

Author(s): Guy Colwell

Subjects: AGB

Publisher: Fantagraphics

Publisher Imprint: Fantagraphics

Publication Date: 03-06-2025

Format: Hardback

Availability: In stock

£27.99

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About the book

Go Figure collects 44 'social surrealist' figurative paintings, spanning 1987-2023. All are in eye-popping colour: many depict a crowd in observational tableaux, each figure a character by virtue of dress, body language, and interactions with each other, animals, and their setting. Other paintings reflect Colwell's wide travels, and still others are surreal - such as 'Junior and the Legs' (2023), which shows a young man strumming a guitar on stage, accompanied by disembodied women's limbs. Each image has a narrative and a moral purpose - often, one figure bravely moves forward, despite a hostile crowd. In Guy Colwell's world, no individual could ever be an island, just another part of a rich ecosystem. Thematically, then, it is fitting that this book was made possible by a group of his collectors, who are sponsoring the show/Guy Colwell retrospective 'Imaginary Reality,' from which this book is created, in an independent space. Go Figure is in an 11 X 11 inch format, to best feature the high-quality reproductions of these numerous critically praised works.

Go Figure

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