{"product_id":"blackstocks-collection-the-drawings-of-an-artistic-savant","title":"Blackstock's Collection: The Drawings of an Artistic Savant","description":"Modern life is an ever-accelerating barrage of people, buildings, vehicles, creatures, and things. How much can a curious mind take in? And what can it do with all the data? Gregory L. Blackstock, a retired Seattle pot washer, draws order out of all the chaos with a pencil, a black marker, and some crayons.\nBlackstock is autistic and an artistic savant. He creates visual lists of everything from wasps to hats to emergency vehicles to noisemakers. In the spirit of the Outsider art of Henry Darger and Howard Finster, Blackstock makes art that is stirring in its profusion and detail and inspiring in its simple beauty. He has never received formal artistic training, yet his renderings clearly and beguilingly show subtle differences and similaritiesenabling the viewer to see, for example, the distinctive features of a dolly varden, a Pacific Coast steelhead cutthroat, and fourteen other types of trout.\nEach collection is lovingly captioned in Blackstock's unique hand with texts that reflect facts from his research as well as his passions and preferences. Blackstock's Collections contains over 100 extraordinary examples of his splendidly original taxonomy, offering a unique look inside the mind of a man making sense of life through art.\nMonsters of the Deep\nMajor Forestry Pests\nThe Great Cabbage Family\nThe Spatulas\nThe World War II U.S. Bombers\nThe Buoys\nKing Sized Jails\nMonsters of the Past\nClassical Clowns\nGreat Italian Roosters\nOur State Lighthouses\nThe Irish Joys\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1568985797\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1568985797.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Blackstock, Gregory L.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41448802287674,"sku":"DBV.1568985797.G","price":5.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1568985797-0.jpg?v=1780868718","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/blackstocks-collection-the-drawings-of-an-artistic-savant","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}