A Micronaut in the Wide World - The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy (Hardcover)

This is the story of a micronaut. Artist, designer and illustrator Graham Percy travelled far and built a career on the closely observed detail. Born in Taranaki in 1938, Percy spent apprentice years in Auckland before moving to London, where with his photographer-partner Mari Mahr he created a workshop-home, a microcosm of the outside world. Here fellow-venturer Gregory O’Brien presents an account of Graham Percy’s life and art, by way of motorbike and hot-air balloon, through sketches and bookshelves, touching on childhood losses and adult nostalgia. Including some of Percy’s most compelling drawings, A Micronaut in the Wide World showcases his early design work, vivid children’s book illustration and thriving mature art. The drawings reveal Percy’s passion for the small and hand-drawn; convey quirky remembered and imagined histories; and feature a cast of curious characters, from storks and trainee running targets to Commedia dell’Arte characters and illustrious composers. In its vivid, exuberant detail — alphabets and elephants, red lettuces and homesick kiwi, the Hungarian navy and the starry skies of the southern hemisphere — A Micronaut in the Wide World is a stimulating rediscovery of a remarkable artist.

General

Imprint:	Auckland University Press
Country of origin:	New Zealand
Release date:	February 2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	Gregory O'Brien
Dimensions:	248 x 200 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	184
ISBN-13:	978-1-86940-470-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > Illustration & commercial art > Illustration
LSN:	1-86940-470-X
Barcode:	9781869404703

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