Frank Walter : the last universal man, 1926-2009 / Barbara Paca.
By: Paca, Barbara [author.].
Contributor(s): Walter, Frank [artist,, author.] | Centro culturale Don Orione Artigianelli [host institution.] | Radius Books [publisher.] | Biennale di Venezia (57th : 2017 : Venice, Italy).
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BookPublisher: Santa Fe, NM, Radius Books 2017Description: 361 pages : ill. ( color), maps ; 33 cm.ISBN: 9781942185185 :(cased).Other title: Last universal man.Subject(s): Walter, Frank, 1926-2009 -- Criticism and interpretation | 2000-2099 | Painting -- Antigua and Barbuda -- 21st century -- Exhibitions | Artists, Black -- Antigua and Barbuda -- Exhibitions | Painting | Artists, Black | Antigua and BarbudaGenre/Form: Criticism, interpretation, etc. | Exhibition catalogs. | Exhibition catalogs.DDC classification: 709.2 Summary: Antiguan artist and writer Frank Walter (1926-2009) was an eccentric character now considered to be vastly under-recognized. Intellectually brilliant, Walter entertained delusions of aristocratic grandeur, namely the belief that the white slave-owners in his family linked him to the noble houses of Europe. The self-styled "7th Prince of the West Indies, Lord of Follies and the Ding-a-Ding Nook" produced paintings that dealt with race, class and social identity, as well as abstract explorations of nuclear energy, portraits both real and imagined--including Hitler playing cricket and Prince Charles and Princess Diana as Adam and Eve--and miniature landscapes of Scotland, the country that he fell in love with during a visit in 1960. Walter typically painted in oil on rudimentary materials, with a marked immediacy and naivety. The first man of color to manage an Antiguan sugar plantation, Walter spent the last 25 years of his life in an isolated home in Antigua, surrounded by his writings, paintings and carvings.
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Foreword by Sir Rodney Williams; introduction by Nina Khrushcheva; supplementary texts by Patricia Scotland, Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Caitlin Hoffman, Marcus Nakbar Crump, Sir Selvyn Walter, and Kenneth M. Milton.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Antigua and Barbuda pavilion for the 57th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia, May 13-November 26, 2017. Exhibitor: Frank Walter. Commissioner: Melville Richardson. Curator: Barbara Paca. Venue: Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli, Zattere Dorsoduro, 909/A.
"La Biennale di Venezia. 57. esposizione internazionale d'arte. Partecipazioni nazionali."
Plate section includes selections from the artist's autobiographical writings, begun in 1974, which exceed 6,000 pages.
Includes bibliographical references (page 348).
Antiguan artist and writer Frank Walter (1926-2009) was an eccentric character now considered to be vastly under-recognized. Intellectually brilliant, Walter entertained delusions of aristocratic grandeur, namely the belief that the white slave-owners in his family linked him to the noble houses of Europe. The self-styled "7th Prince of the West Indies, Lord of Follies and the Ding-a-Ding Nook" produced paintings that dealt with race, class and social identity, as well as abstract explorations of nuclear energy, portraits both real and imagined--including Hitler playing cricket and Prince Charles and Princess Diana as Adam and Eve--and miniature landscapes of Scotland, the country that he fell in love with during a visit in 1960. Walter typically painted in oil on rudimentary materials, with a marked immediacy and naivety. The first man of color to manage an Antiguan sugar plantation, Walter spent the last 25 years of his life in an isolated home in Antigua, surrounded by his writings, paintings and carvings.
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