Kurt Vonnegut Drawings

Those who know Kurt Vonnegut as one of America's most beloved and<br> influential writers will be surprised and delighted to discover that he was also a<br> gifted graphic artist. This book brings together the finest examples of his funny,<br> strange, and moving drawings in an inexpensive, beautifully produced gift<br> volume for every Vonnegut fan.<br><br> Kurt Vonnegut's daughter Nanette introduces this volume of his never before<br> published drawings with an intimate remembrance of her father. Vonnegut always<br> drew, and many of his novels contain sketches. <i>Breakfast of Champions</i> (1973)<br> included many felt-tip pen drawings, and he had a show in 1983 of his drawings at<br> New York's Margo Feiden Gallery, but really got going in the early 1990s when he<br> became acquainted with the screenprinter Joe Petro III, who became his partner in<br> making his colorful drawings available as silkscreens.<br><br> With a touch of cubism, mixed with a Paul Klee gift for caricature, a Calder-like ability<br> to balance color and line, and more than a touch of sixties psychedelic sensibility,<br> Vonnegut's aesthetic is as idiosyncratic and defiant of tradition as his books. While<br> writing came to be more onerous in his later years, making art became his joyful<br> primary activity, and he made drawings up until his death in 2007. This volume, and a<br> planned touring exhibition of the drawings, will introduce Vonnegut's legion of fans to<br> an entirely new side of his irrepressible creative personality.