The Coast of California - Softcover

Killion, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966616707 ISBN 13: 9780966616705

Publisher: Quail Pr, 1999

Synopsis

Tom Killion's luminous wood and lino-cut prints of the California coast spring from a combination of the artist's deeply rooted sense of place and his internalization of the aesthetics of the traditional Japanese landscape print. In this volume we can see both Killion's tribute to Hokusai and Hiroshige, the masters of the early 19th century ukiyo-e landscape print, and his debt to California poets William Everson, Robinson Jeffers and Gary Snyder. The original edition of this book was handprinted by the artist in 1979 in a limited edition of 126 copies that long ago became highly valued collector's books available only in the rare book collections of American and European libraries. This new edition of The Coast of California includes many multicolored prints produced by Killion in the intervening years, during which time he has achieved national recognition as a printmaker and book artist.

About this title

About the Author:

Tom Killion is a fourth generation Northern Californian and a native of Marin County. He founded his Quail Press in Santa Cruz, California, in 1977 after studying fine printing at UC Santa Cruz.He also holds a PhD. in African History from Stanford University and has spent many years working in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Sudan. He currently makes his living as a printmaker in Point Reyes, California.

From the Inside Flap:

Tom Killion's magnificent and moving folio is nothing short of a tour de force. It is a real tour, a tour of the majestic, fragile, and legendary strand of bays, beaches and vistas known as the California Coast. It is also a work of genuine and authentic force presenting, in a free verse summary history, the coast's points and coves, its shifting sandbars and river mouths, its floating world of wind and sea. Finally, it is a caveat, a reminder of the earth's vulnerability, its exposure to development, its susceptibility to the hands and whims of man. ---David Godine

About this edition

• Publisher: Quail Pr
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0966616707
• ISBN 13: 9780966616705
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 78