Life Studies, Life Stories: 80 Works on Paper

Close to 100 figurative drawings in black and white, and in color, mostly nudes in love or strife, some disastered by life, some with incisive or caustic words integrated in the images. This is a retrospective of Ferlinghetti's graphic work and play, ranging from his early drawings made in Paris ateliers, to yesterday's sessions sketching models in his San Francisco studio.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights Books, author of A Coney Island of the Mind and Pictures of the Gone World, among numerous other books, has been drawing from life since his student days in Paris where he frequented the Academie Julien and where he did his first oil painting.

Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 07/01/2003
Pages: 166
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 10.78h x 7.54w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9780872864214

About the Author

Lawerence Ferlinghetti is the famous Beat poet and painter who founded City Lights Books in San Francisco. His most recent books are How To Paint Sunlight (poetry) and Love in the Days of Rage (fiction).