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100 of Andrew Holmes's hyperreal coloured pencil drawings of American trucks, storage tanks, and service stations, produced over the past 50 years. Andrew Holmes is renowned for his hyper-real colored pencil drawings. His subject matter is the fixed and mobile service infrastructure that sustains the city of Los Angeles. The gleaming trucks, automobiles, and motorcycles that traverse the highways, and the industrial armature of storage tanks, service stations and truck stops to be found beyond the city's edge are, for Holmes, the greatest artifacts of a society based on oil. Over the past 50 years, he has captured scenes from this uniquely American landscape in painstaking detail. Together they evoke a lost civilization. Gas Tank City presents 100 of Holmes's Los Angeles drawings, along with commentaries by art historian, Thomas E Crow, architects Mark Fisher and Cedric Price, and Holmes himself.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781911422471
  • ISBN-10: 1911422472
  • Publisher: Circa
  • Publish Date: September 2024
  • Dimensions: 11.9 x 11.8 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
  • Page Count: 208

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