3-D EYE - The Posters, prints and paintings of Michael English (1966 - 1979).

US,slim Qrto softback,1st edn thus. [Produced by M. Dean and S. Henderson.Edited by J.Slattery. Library of Congress Catalog Number 80-7731.] NFINE. No owner inscrptn,but black ink stamp price (US) $6.98,internally to top front corner of front card cover. Bright,crisp, clean,shep-cornered,glossy laminated,wrap-around white background with capitalised,black-lettered part-title and author name to front card cover with oozing chocolate (1977) colour illustration (pp50),vertically capitalised publisher name+ $price on gutter fold/crease of front cover and an adhesive,gilt circular $6.98 price label in its vicinity,capitalised part-title+ author name+ISBN to spine/backstrip which has NO reading creases; rear cover with white background and b/w Perigee+Paper Tiger logo towards top edge and publisher details+ISBN towards lower edge and an approx 2" wide vertical band/strip of natural but slight, light darkening/ageing.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread other than my own collation.US,slim Qrto s/back,1st edn thus,6-107pp [paginated] includes subject's b/w portrait photograph by David Bailey and 2 b/w contemporary shop front murals and an approx 1 year-old portrait photograph of himself within the commentary about his work/art by Penny Sparke, 100 colour and 20 b/w illustrations of his prints,posters etc.; plus [unpaginated]colour illustrated frntis,colour vignetted title page, contents list/table and to the rear,acknowledgements with a blank verso and a further 2p blanks. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally, the book is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its age and nature, i.e. an ephemeral softback book.It is only the exterior fault described that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite it,it really is an exceptional exampley for its cleanliness,brightness and almost fault-free presentation. Michael English (b. 5th September,1941 – d. 25th September 2009) was a British artist known for poster designs he created in the 1960s for musicians such as Jimi Hendrix in collaboration with Nigel Waymouth and the design company they established, Hapshash and the Coloured Coat,and later for several series of hyper realist paintings in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1962 he enolled at Ealing College of Art,where he took Roy Ascott's radical Groundcourse which had a major impact on his thinking.His work included commissioned paintings for both private individuals and public organisations,advertising art for companies such as Porsche and stamp series for the Royal Mail such as the 'British Buses' or 'British Motorcycles'. His career was launched in London during 1966,when he began to work with Nigel Waymouth,who owned the shop Granny Takes a Trip in the King's Road,which was a burgeoning counter-culture and bohemian centre of Swinging London. English was hired by Waymouth to create a mural for the shop,which was rapidly gaining international cult status. English incorporated "fairground murals, vernacular imagery and hand-crafted Victorian letter forms" into the mural,and during the same period,he also completed a mural for the Cale Street shop Hung On You in the trendy Chelsea area,owned by Michael Rainey. During this period he produced what he considered his 'best poster' for the underground club UFO established by John Hopkins,co-founder of the International Times. He contributed artwork,including two covers (issues 4 and 13) for the radical 'OZ' magazine as part of Hapshash,a collaboration which continued for two years.Throughout this time,he produced posters for leading performers such as Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix. He also created posters for the 1968 Liverpool Love Festival,and Love Me Film Productions. Michael English has been credited with creating "an English form of psychedelic poster art". English's works used contemporary Op Art techniques to create a visually jarring effect for the viewer, and had a bold,carnivalesque style similar to Pop Art. He also used evocative references to the decadent spirit of the 1890s 'Art Nouveau' influences,such as Alphonse Mucha's posters,and the works of Aubrey Beardsley. In the 1970s,English moved away from psychedelic imagery towards Hyper Realist work, employing airbrush techniques. He produced several different series of paintings,'The Food Paintings' (1969– 70),including 'Fried Egg' and 'Ketchup', The Rubbish Posters (1970),with the iconic 'Coke',an airbrush image of a used Coca-Cola bottle cap,and the Strikes Water Prints (1971) with images such as Ball Strikes Water. English's posters from this period sold in the millions. English also experimented with environmentalist happenings and oil lamp projections.In the mid to late 1970s and the 1980s he focused more keenly on two seemingly contrasting themes,the 'Machine Paintings', which are highly detailed sections of trains, planes and trucks and the 'Nature Paintings',which provided close-up fragments of nature images such as ivy leaves often juxtaposed with hard man-made surfaces.His interest in both these themes continued to play a major part in his subsequent career resulting in several large scale paintings. [Wiki.] Please contact seller, because of the weight/value of this item, for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. 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