Susan Seddon Boulet: A Retrospective
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (553 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0764910302 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Comprehensive Review of the Artist and her Unique Talent Pamela Atkinson Susan Seddon Boulet - A Retrospective, by Michael Babock, beautifully recounts the life of an internationally-known Bay Area artist, while a well-chosen selection of her paintings and sketches documents the many changes in her style, her use of new techniques and materials and, ultimately,her inner struggle with the concepts of life, death and resurrection as she courageously battles the cancer that ultimately claimed her life in April of 1997.Boulet, whose body of work numbers in excess of 3,000 pieces painted from 1970 through 1996, began to draw and paint at a very early age. In the 1970's, after her husban. A must-have for any Susan Seddon Boulet afficionado I've purchased several S.S.B. books in the past because I love her work, but I was frustrated with these books because they were exclusively picture books that revealed nothing about the artist herself or the life she was living.I was also frustrated by their lack of artistic documentation found in the other S.S.B. books. I wanted to know so much more about Boulet and what inspired the images I was seeing (not to mention the dimensions and what -medium- and technique was being used to create them) and how they progressed over time.This book -finally- provides all that, and then some. It's well written and beau. 5K stars, susan is incredible makes great tattoo's i love her. i have never been so mesmerized byan artist before. sure georgia o'keeffe, and morebut susan just because my favorite artist in thepast 5K stars, susan is incredible makes great tattoo's Dreams i love her. i have never been so mesmerized byan artist before. sure georgia o'keeffe, and morebut susan just because my favorite artist in thepast 4 yrs. i have several tattoos from thegoddess cards on my arms, which are connected.i hope someone else writes a book about herlife, etc. . yrs. i have several tattoos from thegoddess cards on my arms, which are connected.i hope someone else writes a book about herlife, etc.
It includes more than two hundred reproductions of her unique and wondrous paintings, some never before published, along with photographs chronicling the events of her life from Brazil to California.. This beautiful, moving retrospective by Michael Babcock recounts Susan Boulet's artistic development and celebrates her extraordinary personal journey. Susan Seddon Boulet lived life in search of the magnificent. As a child growing up on a Brazilian farm, she developed a deep affection for animals and loved making colorful sketches of them. From these formative experiences, she found her destiny, one that deeply affected people all over the world
A longtime resident of the San Francisco Bay Area and a graduate of Stanford University, Michael Babcock (American, b. Babcock is author of Susan Seddon Boulet: The Goddess Paintings and The Power of the Bear: Paintings by Susan Seddon Boulet. He is a former graphic designer and computer programmer. . His nearly sixteen-year friendship with Susan Seddon Boulet was enriched by their shared interests in symbols a
He is a former graphic designer and computer programmer. About the Author A longtime resident of the San Francisco Bay Area and a graduate of Stanford University, Michael Babcock (American, b. . Babcock is author of Susan Seddon Boulet: The Goddess Paintings and The Power of the Bear: Paintings by Susan Seddon Boulet. His nearly sixteen-year friendship with Susan Seddon Boulet was enriched by their shared interests in symbols and archetypes. 1950) lives and writes in Oakland, California