Since he started painting in the late 1950s
Prominent academic and activist Salamishah Tillet combines cultural criticism
an emotionally devastating meditation on grief and “a drama of surpassing beauty” (Wall Street Journal)
Set against the backdrop of one of the nation’s earliest man-made ecological catastrophes
and it’s what you’ll find here in their first book
Frank Bowling Foreword by Hamish Bowles Since he started painting inBorn in Guyana in 1936, Frank Bowling arrived in Britain in his late teens and studied painting at the Royal College of Art alongside David Hockney. Since he started painting in the late 1950s, Bowling has pursued a relentless exploration of the properties and possibilities of paint, experimenting with stitching, staining, pouring, and dripping. Ambitious in scale, Bowlings work is described in terms of its colorful and luminous quality, and the