" ""Knight's Tale breaks boundaries. It uncovers the dark heart of chivalric idealism, injects the political seriousness of epic into the timeless summer of romance, insists on a pagan outlook within a Christian culture, and draws compassion for female suffering from a man's world. Along with the exquisite anonymous poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the "Knight's Tale is the most intricately structured and stylistically pleasing of medieval English romances. For these reasons, it is worthy of its own edition, but what makes it particularly suitable to an illustrated edition is how its...
" ""Knight's Tale breaks boundaries. It uncovers the dark heart of chivalric idealism, injects the political seriousness of epic into the timeless sum...
One each of the seven poems written about major artists of the 1930s (Paul Klee, Marc Chagalll, Georges Braque, Jacques Villon, Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, and Joan Miro) was given to selected artists who created an image based on the poem. The images were printed for the book using relief and silkscreen incorporating the poems in English and French and printed letterpress.
One each of the seven poems written about major artists of the 1930s (Paul Klee, Marc Chagalll, Georges Braque, Jacques Villon, Juan Gris, Pablo Picas...
"Chopper Blues" is the apex of a unique evolution: it grows from the script of a mixed media introduction performed live for a body of viscerally intense woodcuts, drawings and paintings first exhibited in East Texas at the Tyler Museum of Art and last honored at the Marine Corps Museum in San Diego, California. Musician, painter, printer, sculptor and maturing poet, Jones sustained the experience which made both these images and this text necessary during the three years he served the Marine Corps, almost all of it as Platoon Commander, Company C, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, this enlistment...
"Chopper Blues" is the apex of a unique evolution: it grows from the script of a mixed media introduction performed live for a body of viscerally inte...
"A Forest Insect Alphabet "features fifty-one original woodcuts drawn and cut by Master Printer Charles Jones. Twenty-six of the images are color woodcuts of forest insects chosen to represent each letter of the alphabet and accompanied by twenty-three black and white wood engravings. The book features forest insects important for their beauty, impact on the forest environment and intricate ecology. Jones designed and cut capital letters for each insect name, making them an integral part of the compositions. The colors used for each woodcut are based on those of the named insect. A...
"A Forest Insect Alphabet "features fifty-one original woodcuts drawn and cut by Master Printer Charles Jones. Twenty-six of the images are color w...
"Landscapes with Horses" conjoins the work of two artists: the poetry of Mark Sanders and the illustrations of woodcutter and book artisan Charles Jones. The LaNana Creek Press editions of this handpressed, hand-bound collaboration features over a dozen of Jones's exquisite woodcuts and twenty of Sanders's poems. The combination is a feast of imagery, both visual and written, and fine-press book enthusiasts and fans of poetry will find much to admire. Jones's woodcuts show the range of horse energies, from wildness to repose, and Sanders's verse places horses and humans in spiritual...
"Landscapes with Horses" conjoins the work of two artists: the poetry of Mark Sanders and the illustrations of woodcutter and book artisan Charles Jon...
"My Black Angel, Blues Poems and Portraits" pairs the blues poems of Kim Addonizio with woodcut effigies based on images of a number of significiant blues musicians with the intent of creating "duets" of image and text, each spread becoming a visual composition and each element amplifying the other. Created by Charles D. Jones, the woodcuts are in direct response to the poetry. The limited edition book features 24 poems and 26 images printed directly from wooden blocks on Hahnemuhle's Biblio paper, with additional images for the delux edition printed onto Sekishu, a fine Japanese paper....
"My Black Angel, Blues Poems and Portraits" pairs the blues poems of Kim Addonizio with woodcut effigies based on images of a number of significiant b...
Limited Edition Charles D. Jones is an East Texas legend, a Renaissance man by all measures. This newest book from the author of Honey Bucket Charlie and Chopper Blues attests to that talent and artistic brilliance. Here, beautifully printed and housed in an embossed cloth cover is a retrospective of nearly a half-century of Jones's artwork--drawings and sketches, paintings and prints, and woodcuts that range from blues musicians to modern authors, horses to insects, and flora of East Texas. The range of Jones' work is phenomenal; not only have his works hung in...
Limited Edition Charles D. Jones is an East Texas legend, a Renaissance man by all measures. This newest book from the author of Honey Buck...
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