Jack Earl: The Genesis and Triumphant Survival of an Underground Ohio Artist [signed] [first edition]

STATED FIRST EDITION.1985 Perimeter Press trade paperback w/ DJ.I DIFFERENT COVER than SHOWN: Statute of worker w/ gimme cap. Lee Nordness (Objects U.S.A.: Works by Artist-Craftsmen in Ceramic, Enamel, Glass, Metal, Plastic, Mosaic, Wood and Fiber). Jack Earl (born August 2, 1934 in Uniopolis, Ohio) is an American ceramic artist and former teacher, known for drawing inspiration from his home state of Ohio to create rural pieces "with meticulous craftsmanship and astute details... to where you could smell the air, hear the silence and swat the flies." Although his works hint at highly personal, intellectual, and narrative themes in an almost unsettling manner, Earl is "a self-described anti-intellectual who shuns the art world." He is known particularly for using his trademark format, the dos-a-dos (translated "back to back")/ - Wikipedia