Learning to Draw / A History
- ISBN-10
- 1908011300
- ISBN-13
- 9781908011305
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 270
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Skylight Press
- Authors
- Basil King, Daniel Staniforth
Description
Previously serialised in various journals, this is the first collection of these personal and historical vignettes in alternating prose and poetry, from an artist who moves from London's East End to Black Mountain College to the New York Art scene.
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