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Blackstock's Collections: The Drawings of an Artistic Savant Paperback - 2007 - 1st Edition

by Gregory L. Blackstock; Foreword by Darold A. Treffert; Introduction by Karen Light-Pina

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Modern life is an ever-accelerating barrage of people, buildings, vehicles, creatures, and things. How much can a curious mind take in? And what can it do with all the data? Gregory L. Blackstock, a retired Seattle pot washer, draws order out of all the chaos with a pencil, a black marker, and some crayons.

Blackstock is autistic and an artistic savant. He creates visual lists of everything from wasps to hats to emergency vehicles to noisemakers. In the spirit of the Outsider art of Henry Darger and Howard Finster, Blackstock makes art that is stirring in its profusion and detail and inspiring in its simple beauty. He has never received formal artistic training, yet his renderings clearly and beguilingly show subtle differences and similaritiesenabling the viewer to see, for example, the distinctive features of a dolly varden, a Pacific Coast steelhead cutthroat, and fourteen other types of trout.

Each collection is lovingly captioned in Blackstock's unique hand with texts that reflect facts from his research as well as his passions and preferences. Blackstock's Collections contains over 100 extraordinary examples of his splendidly original taxonomy, offering a unique look inside the mind of a man making sense of life through art.

Monsters of the Deep
Major Forestry Pests
The Great Cabbage Family
The Spatulas
The World War II U.S. Bombers
The Buoys
King Sized Jails
Monsters of the Past
Classical Clowns
Great Italian Roosters
Our State Lighthouses
The Irish Joys

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  • Title Blackstock's Collections: The Drawings of an Artistic Savant
  • Author Gregory L. Blackstock; Foreword by Darold A. Treffert; Introduction by Karen Light-Pina
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton Architectural Press, New York
  • Date January 2007
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781568985794 / 1568985797
  • Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 in (24.13 x 13.97 x 1.91 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Blackstock, Gregory L, Autistic artists - Washington (State) -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006001273
  • Dewey Decimal Code 741.973

About the author

Gregory L. Blackstock worked as a pot washer for twenty-five years. He began making his pictorial lists at age forty, and had his first gallery exhibition in 2004. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
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