Author: MCGRATH, ELIZABETH
Title: Everything That Creeps
Description: San Francisco, CA: Last Gasp of San Francisco, 2006. Second Printing; Hardcover. ISBN: 0867196386. Color Illustrations; 12.3 X 9.2 X 0.7 inches; 127 pages; Hard cover has brown spine with gold lettering. Covers have slight rubbing, scuffing. Round hole in front cover, to see to the illustrated front end paper. Beautifully illustrated with full color pictures. Pages are clean and tight ; appears as if unused. 'The first collected work of the LA underground art world'sS favorite wunderkind, Elizabeth McGrath. 112 pages of full-color photos and detail shots reveal the exquisitely complex details of her sweetly twisted creatures, giving a glimpse of what the City of Misfit Toys might have become had it been saved by Satan rather than Santa. Upon first viewing, McGrath's colorful, mummified creatures are gothic oddities, but their undeniable artistry immediately draws one in, revealing their touching curiosities, transforming their grotesqueness into tortured beauty. ' Index. Oversized/4#.. Fine .

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