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Like a long, funny letter from an old friend, an album of drawings
by the legendary singer and activist for social justice, Joan Baez.
Since retiring from active performing, Baez has focused her
formidable talents on painting and drawing. This collection of
drawings shows another side of Baez: lovingly loose and charming
sketches on reoccurring themes such as politics, relationships,
women, animals, and family. Each section, organized thematically,
includes an introductory piece by the artist. Baez approaches her
line drawings as exercises in freedom: she begins drawing upside
down—often using her non-dominant hand—without any preconceived
notion of where the lines might lead her. Beginning with her
seminal debut album in 1960, Baez has been a musical force of
nature of incalculable influence whose earliest recordings fed a
host of traditional ballads into the rock vernacular. In 1963, she
introduced Bob Dylan to the world, beginning a tradition of mutual
mentoring that continued across her many recordings. As a lifetime
advocate for non-violent social change, she marched on the front
line of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King Jr.,
shined a spotlight on the Free Speech Movement, took to the fields
with Cesar Chavez, organized resistance to the Vietnam War, and
inspired Vaclav Havel in his fight for a Czech Republic. Am I
Pretty When I Fly? reveals yet another side of a beloved icon.
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