The Architect's Brother

The Architect's Brother"I want to make images that have open, narrative qualities, enough to suggest ideas about human limits. I want there to be a combination of the past juxtaposed with the modern. I use nature to symbolize the search, saving a tree, watering the earth. In this fabricated world, strange clouds of smog float by; there are holes in the sky. These mythic images mirror our world, where nature is domesticated, controlled, and destroyed. Through my work I

Essays by Lynne Cooke and Terrie Sultan

Ralston Crawford has been most closely identified with Precisionism

first published by Nexus Press in 1987

Introduction by Dennis Cooper

His subjects include Jack Kerouac

and beetles—vie on Rockman’s vibrant canvasses with anteaters

december 1990

collected in this book

He finds these pictures in family albums

handmade binding

Roy Lichtenstein

57 color plates