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Go Figure: Figurative Social Surrealist Paintings
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $29.99
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: Jun 3 2025
Pages: 96
Weight: 2.02
Height: 0.55 Width: 10.94 Depth: 11.10
Language: English
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Go Figure collects 44 social surrealist figurative paintings, spanning 1987-2023. All are in eye-popping color: many depict a crowd in observational tableaux, each figure a character by virtue of dress, body language, and interactions with each other, animals, and their setting. Other paintings reflect Colwell's wide travels, and still others are surreal -- such as Junior and the Legs (2023), which shows a young man strumming a guitar on stage, accompanied by disembodied women's limbs. Each image has a narrative and a moral purpose--often, one figure bravely moves forward, despite a hostile crowd. In Guy Colwell's world, no individual could ever be an island, just another part of a rich ecosystem.
Thematically, then, it is fitting that this book was made possible by a group of his collectors, who are sponsoring the show/Guy Colwell retrospective Imaginary Reality, from which this book is created, in an independent space. Go Figure is in an 11 X 11 format, to best feature the high-quality reproductions of these numerous critically praised works.
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