Leroy Neiman on Safari [Hardcover]

Leroy Neiman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1997

One of America's most popular artists depicts in vibrant, full-color images the animals, landscapes, and people which he encountered during his African "painting safari." Neiman's brilliant palette and candid prose record life in the wild with the same curiosity and intensity he brings to sports and social subjects. 100 color illustrations.

Editorial Reviews

From Kirkus Reviews

Neiman's sojourn in the Kenyan savannah yielded plenty of material for his trademark party-colored canvases--lion, elephant, cape buffalo, rhino, cheetah, and the like--creatures who emerge here from a throng of oily daubs, drips, and palette knifings. But these works feel almost too spontaneous, as if dashed off in an obligatory manner. More satisfying are the pen-and-ink and sepia works, which are less self-conscious and display a more fluid and less facile line. Here he captures both aura and gesture: a splay- legged giraffe grazing on grass, a toe-stepping warthog, zebras at full tilt. There are plenty of photos of the man himself-- schmoozing with the Maasai, communing with rhinos, forever sketching--to punctuate the predictable text, which features a lot of huffing and puffing about the mingled fantasy and danger one encounters in a sweeping landscape, before, of course, one toddles back to camp for champagne and fois gras. (100 color illustrations) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 152 pages
• Publisher: Harry N Abrams; First Edition edition (March 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0810963329
• ISBN-13: 978-0810963320
• Product Dimensions: 12.6 x 9.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,933,944 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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