{"product_id":"woody-guthrie-artworks-9780847827381","title":"Woody Guthrie Artworks","description":"\u003cp\u003eSongwriter  poet  writer  political activist . . . and  perhaps most fundamental to his work but least known about Woody Guthrie  artist. \"Contrary to popular mythology  it was with paint brushes in hand  not a guitar  that Guthrie hit the road for California. He had hocked his guitar . . . and it was his artistic skills that he brokered for room and board.\" So begins Noras fascinating revelations about her fathers vast body of artwork. Other than the drawings for his autobiography  Bound for Glory  few have seen Guthries art. This is because much of it is inextricably bound into diaries and work books into which he poured his images  and which are presented here for the first time. Guthrie worked as a commercial artist  illustrating album covers  books  and newspaper columns  and kept a daily record of his life  and of American life  in thousands of pictures. Some complement song-writing in such a fluid way that they often appear interwoven with handwritten lyrics. The stinging honesty  humor  and wit found in his music are also to be found in his art  layering our understanding of his social  political  and spiritual life. In more than 300 examples  his visual creativity is apparent  from political cartoons to bawdy and comical gouaches to childrens art to abstract emotional outpourings. Drawing extensively on Guthries words  Brower unveils an enhanced portrait of one of Americas greatest creative forces.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666409185333,"sku":"ByrdShop_0847827380","price":55.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780847827381.jpg?v=1782431141","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/woody-guthrie-artworks-9780847827381","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}