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Escape Artist: The Art of Fran Forman Hardcover – January 28, 2015

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4.8 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
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In this rich and dream-like collection of photo-paintings, artist and fabulist Fran Forman offers characters, scenes and visual narratives that lure the imagination. She explores the multiple meanings of the word escape, focusing on the central idea of breaking through the normal barriers of everyday life. Many of these figures appear to be floating or rowing or sailing away, trying to leave the rest of the earth-bound world behind. Thus, the artist invites us to ask ourselves what realities exist beyond the traditional limits of gravity, linear time, and social convention. The exquisite poems and story by writer Michelle Blake act as a guidebook to these vast imaginary worlds, suggesting voices for some of the characters and destinations for some of the journeys. All together, the book offers its own particular form of beauty, one that invites the viewer to step outside the known.
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    192 pages
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    10 x 0.8 x 10.1 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0764347284
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    978-0764347283
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Photo-montage artist Fran Forman‘s gorgeous images can be seen in prestigious galleries and major museums, including the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, a testament to the many significant awards and prizes she has earned over her 20-year career.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Schiffer
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 28, 2015
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0764347284
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0764347283
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.06 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10 x 0.8 x 10.1 inches
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  • Gloria Silverman
    5.0 out of 5 stars I am delighted to now have her beautifully produced book living with ...
    Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2015
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    I gave myself this book for my birthday, and I have been reading it with admiration and pleasure. It is a very impressive body of work, rich with fabulous and thought-provoking images.

    I first encountered the artist's photo-montage paintings a few years ago through the internet and have been seeking out her creations online ever since. I am delighted to now have her beautifully produced book living with me. There is something special about an actual book where you can touch and turn the pages, this book in particular. Fran's work strongly engages the viewer. The characters and imaginative, unusual juxtapositions in her scenes invite us to revisit the images again and again.

    Highly recommended as a gift to yourself and to others.
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  • Robert Hudnall
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2017
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    A beautiful book
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  • K. Leistner
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2016
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    so creative
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  • Del Zogg
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2015
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    Beautiful book of thought provoking imagery.
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  • Tim Anderson
    5.0 out of 5 stars A good example of photomontage by a great artist.
    Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2015
    Fran Forman’s new release, Escape Artist: The Art of Fran Forman, asks more questions than it answers.

    “In this rich and dream-like collection of photo-paintings, artist and fabulist Fran Forman offers characters, scenes, and visual
    narratives that lure the imagination. Many of these figures appear to be floating or rowing or sailing away, trying to leave
    the rest of the earth-bound world behind. Thus, the artist invites us to ask ourselves what realities exist beyond the traditional
    limits of gravity, linear time, and social convention.” (From the cover flap)

    And, the stage is set for us to wander in and out of Forman’s world of “characters, scenes, and visual narratives.” There are
    many of each: camels and crows; people in bird cages; a pair of hands, a bicycle and a hat; a sailor rowing across a lawn. They
    are all there in her mind and possibly, even in ours… should we choose to admit it.

    Many of the images have vaguely descriptive text. The illustration below, “The Secret Gift,” carries with it the sentence, “First they ordered silence, but because the children could not stay silent…” That thought is carried on for the next few pages and surreally tie in with the attending imagery. Such is how Forman’s mind floats in and out of consciousness. We are much the richer for that process.

    Michelle Blake, a much-published poet, adds that text and has also inserted poems at the beginning of each section. Her writing is fluid and floats in and out of the pages of Escape Artist. Are they descriptive? Could the images stand without the words? Could the words stand without images? Probably. But, why would we want that? Each without the other would be somewhat less on their own, in the context of this book.

    The Photo Review Editor, Stephen Perloff writes in the Afterword, “Among the many accomplished artists now employing photomontage, Fran Forman has created a whimsical, subtle, and psychologically challenging body of work that engages and enthralls the viewer. Forman has mastered the technical aspects of her medium, that while we can intellectually ‘see’ its layers, it convinces us of its own internal reality.”

    I agree with Perloff in that there are many artists who have pursued this genre. Many are good. Most are not. As a Photoshop user for many
    years I can professionally comment on how difficult and challenging the art of photomontage is. I only recently began a rudimentary journey into
    that process, with the end product being much less complicated and less compelling than those in Escape Artist. It ain’t easy!

    In the Foreword, Rebecca Alban Hoffberger, Founder and Director of the American Visionary Art Museum writes “Fran Forman’s work is pro-escape. She’s a visual storyteller with a personal psyche laden with a lifetime of archiving visual icons sufficient to trigger in herself and the viewer their own imaginative flight response.”

    It is with great pleasure that I thank Forman for her “lifetime of archiving visual icons…” Without them where would we look to see what might be beyond those gravity-bound limits we place on our spindly shoulders? Why wouldn’t we want to be taken away?

    Spend some imaginative time with Escape Artist: The Art of Fran Forman, and you may find your own answers that are just beginning to form questions.
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  • Mikephotos
    5.0 out of 5 stars Starting to believe impossible things
    Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2015
    I'm falling under the spell of "Escape Artist," and starting to believe at least some of the unbelievable things in this book. And making up my own stories about each "photo-painting."

    Judging by its cover, Fran Forman's book looks like a photography book (except a man is sculling across a lawn - in half a boat!), and still looks like a photography book when flipping through the pages. But when you look at each photograph, you realize that it is actually a book of fantasies, of short stories, of images of things that can't really happen. Pigs flying? Winged people? Ships sailing across fields, and airplanes in bird cages. And lots and lots of birds, of all kinds. And elephants.

    Which is what is so wonderful about "Escape Artist." Fran Forman created it. But I can sit and look through it and make up my own stories - possibly (even probably) not at all what Fran Forman had in mind. That is the fun of this book - this book of short stories enables us to become Fran Forman's coauthor. She created the lovely, surreal landscapes, for people and animals to inhabit, and now you and I can weave stories around each photo-painting.
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  • Gypsy Girl
    5.0 out of 5 stars Digital magic
    Reviewed in Canada on June 9, 2016
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    Fran Forman is a magician. I first saw her work in the Fox Talbot museum at Lacock Abbey in the UK and fell in love with it. Her enigmatic images are reminiscent of paintings by Franco Fortunato. This is a beautiful book and I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in the development of digital art forms.
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  • Pipster
    5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and inspiring!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 9, 2015
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    Beautiful and inspiring collection of Fran Forman's unique photomontage. Colours are stunning, nice chunky book too!
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  • Gerry Coe
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 19, 2015
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    First Class, a must for all Artists.
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