Through Prehensile Eyes: Seeing the Art of Robert Williams

Through Prehensile Eyes is a collection of Robert Williams' fifty-eight then-recent paintings first exhibited at New York's Tony Shafrazi Gallery and subsequently shown in May 2005 at the Ben Maltz Gallery at Los Angeles' Otis College of Art.

The images range from the artist's familiar lowbrow and biker culture, stretching deep into a faux-science of quantum mechanics, leaving the viewer in a world of scientific mind play.

Robert Williams sprang from the custom car culture of Southern California and was one of the original Zap Comix artists. He transcended the constraints of both, mastering oils and forging a career as the preeminent artist among a generation of imagist painters.

After single-handedly becoming the model of Lowbrow Art, Williams has now penetrated the inner sanctum of the fine arts movement.

The collection features 58 works by Williams with 60 full-color reproductions.

Author: Robert Williams
Artist: Robert Williams
Publisher: Last Gasp, 2005 First Edition (Out of Print)
Number of pages: 200
Format: Hard Cover; Part Colour illustrations
Size: 10" x 13" (260mm x 320mm)
ISBN: 9780867195163
Condition: F - Fine
Code: RBTWILLTPE