Pieces of Glass
An Artoire
Published on 19. April 2016
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-931290-97-5 (ISBN)
Description
Award-winning Hollywood screenwriter and author John Sacret Young embraces and appreciates art, particularly American art and Modernism, and has collected and written about it for much of his life. In Pieces of Glass, Young mixes the "art" side of his life with a true memoir to create a unique Artoire in which he explores the profound effect it has had on him, his work, and his existence. From Rothko to John Marin, Diebenkorn to Vermeer, and Rockwell to Charles Burchfield, Young discovers that paintings, drawings, sketches and even chalk on an old garage wall have helped "paint" him into the person he is today.
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
1021 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-931290-97-5 (9781931290975)
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Person
John Sacret Young is an author, producer, director, and screenwriter. Young has been nominated for seven Emmys and seven Writers Guild of America Awards, winning two WGA Awards. Elmore Leonard said of Young's first memoir: "Young writes so well his memoir works as a novel. He brings to life real people in dramatic situations, with indelible grace and the restless energy of emotions that even the passage of time cannot quell." The New Yorker called him "a writer of effortless dexterity and a true, unaffected originality . . . The story he tells cuts right to the bone."