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Hot Rod World of Robert Williams by Robert Williams (2006, Hardcover)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- “Like New Flawless Properly Packed & Promptly Shipped”
- Original Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780760326602
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
MBI Publishing Company LLC
ISBN-10
0760326606
ISBN-13
9780760326602
eBay Product ID (ePID)
54359832
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hot Rod World of Robert Williams
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Automotive / General, Science & Technology
Features
Revised
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Transportation, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
42.2 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
10 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-019872
Reviews
Hot4S.com (AUS), December 2006 "If you're coffee table is covered in crud and old Playboys with their pages stuck together, boy have we found something special to get those passers-by exclaiming 'oh' and 'ah'. "Robert Williams comes to us with inordinate fame in the hot-rod world, specifically for his skill livin' everything rod. To say the man's hot-rod mad is an understatement, and like the back of the book reads, 'hot rods, motorsickles, carnies... hippies and punks, Bob has spent a lifetime simmering waist-deep in a spicy gonzo weirdness, and now he's serving up a big bowl of his crazy life to you, oh hapless reader.' "Yes, it's weird, but it's also wonderful looking into a man so immersed in roddin' culture, and if ever you've thrown a spanner around or simply looked longingly at that rat rod passin' by, you're sure to get some kind of enjoyment from this book. "Or you could just trip out to the psychedelic art... Cool, very cool.", Hot4S.com (AUS), December 2006 "If you're coffee table is covered in crud and old Playboys with their pages stuck together, boy have we found something special to get those passers-by exclaiming 'oh' and 'ah'. "Robert Williams comes to us with inordinate fame in the hot-rod world, specifically for his skill livin' everything rod. To say the man's hot-rod mad is an understatement, and like the back of the book reads, 'hot rods, motorsickles, carnies… hippies and punks, Bob has spent a lifetime simmering waist-deep in a spicy gonzo weirdness, and now he's serving up a big bowl of his crazy life to you, oh hapless reader.' "Yes, it's weird, but it's also wonderful looking into a man so immersed in roddin' culture, and if ever you've thrown a spanner around or simply looked longingly at that rat rod passin' by, you're sure to get some kind of enjoyment from this book. "Or you could just trip out to the psychedelic art… Cool, very cool.", Rod and Custom", September 2007 "Williams tells his fascinating personal story centering around his lifelong involvement with hot rods.", Gearhead," No. 15 " The ultimate book on ... artist Robt. Williams and his relationship to hot rods and car culture has arrived.", Rod and Custom Magazine,September 2007 "Williams tells his fascinating personal story centering around his lifelong involvement with hot rods.", Ol' Skool Rodz , July 2007 "Robt. Williams is the dean of hot rod art, the man to whom all other hot rod lowbrow artists are ultimately compared. Here is a book for hot rodders, lowbrow art lovers, fans of the man Robt. Williams and students of the American hot rod culture. Read it and enjoy." , "Ol' Skool Rodz," July 2007 " Robt. Williams is the dean of hot rod art, the man to whom all other hot rod lowbrow artists are ultimately compared. Here is a book for hot rodders, lowbrow art lovers, fans of the man Robt. Williams and students of the American hot rod culture. Read it and enjoy.", Hot4S.com (AUS), December 2006 " If you' re coffee table is covered in crud and old Playboys with their pages stuck together, boy have we found something special to get those passers-by exclaiming ' oh' and ' ah' . " Robert Williams comes to us with inordinate fame in the hot-rod world, specifically for his skill livin' everything rod. To say the man' s hot-rod mad is an understatement, and like the back of the book reads, ' hot rods, motorsickles, carnies... hippies and punks, Bob has spent a lifetime simmering waist-deep in a spicy gonzo weirdness, and now he' s serving up a big bowl of his crazy life to you, oh hapless reader.' " Yes, it' s weird, but it' s also wonderful looking into a man so immersed in roddin' culture, and if ever you' ve thrown a spanner around or simply looked longingly at that rat rod passin' by, you' re sure to get some kind of enjoyment from this book. " Or you could just trip out to the psychedelic art... Cool, very cool.", Ol' Skool Rodz, July 2007 "Robt. Williams is the dean of hot rod art, the man to whom all other hot rod lowbrow artists are ultimately compared. Here is a book for hot rodders, lowbrow art lovers, fans of the man Robt. Williams and students of the American hot rod culture. Read it and enjoy." , Gearhead , No. 15 "The ultimate book on ... artist Robt. Williams and his relationship to hot rods and car culture has arrived.", Olrs" Skool Rodz, July 2007 "Robt. Williams is the dean of hot rod art, the man to whom all other hot rod lowbrow artists are ultimately compared. Here is a book for hot rodders, lowbrow art lovers, fans of the man Robt. Williams and students of the American hot rod culture. Read it and enjoy.", "Ol' Skool Rodz", July 2007 "Robt. Williams is the dean of hot rod art, the man to whom all other hot rod lowbrow artists are ultimately compared. Here is a book for hot rodders, lowbrow art lovers, fans of the man Robt. Williams and students of the American hot rod culture. Read it and enjoy.", Gearhead, No. 15 "The ultimate book on ... artist Robt. Williams and his relationship to hot rods and car culture has arrived.", Rod and Custom, September 2007 "Williams tells his fascinating personal story centering around his lifelong involvement with hot rods.", Rod and Custom Magazine , September 2007 "Williams tells his fascinating personal story centering around his lifelong involvement with hot rods."
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
629.2286092
Edition Description
Revised edition
Table Of Content
Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Chapter One Of Juvenile Delinquents and a B-Movie Adolescence: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter Two Eights & Acesto Prickly Heat: The '32 Roadster Story Chapter Three 120MPH Cheese Grater: Recounting Suzanne's '34 Sedan Chapter Four A Shit Box Begets a Turn-key Deuce: The '32 Three-Window Chapter Five Of Latter-day Buffalo Bills and Surly Futurists: The Ed "Big Daddy" Roth and Von Dutch Connection Chapter Six From Douche Bags to High Dollars: Hot Rods in the Abstract Index
Synopsis
An illustrated autobiography, putting Williams' work in the context of his hot rod background, and telling of the wild formative years behind one of America's biggest underground artists., Robert Williams' life and work have proven difficult to describe. Who better then, to put Williams into words and pictures than the man himself-as he does in this illustrated autobiography of his life in hot rods. Here, for the first time, Robert Williams presents his extraordinary body of work in the context of his hot rod background, in the process relating his impossibly wild formative years and his gradual establishment as one of America's most influential underground artists. Born in 1943 and raised in Alabama and Albuquerque, Williams eventually gravitated to Southern California and the Chouinard Art Institute, but not before immersing himself in the country's nascent youth culture of hot rods, rock 'n' roll, and bowling alley rumbles. He recounts a boyhood spent in drive-in theaters and dirt tracks, honing a life and a style that had little to do with the world of square day jobs he entered after leaving Chouinard in 1963, when, through sheer happenstance, an unemployment agency handed him a job as art director at the studio of his hero, Ed ""Big Daddy"" Roth. Along with tales from his time at Roth studios--which resulted in his famous Roth ads for Hot Rod magazine, not to mention several infamous run-ins with the Hell's Angels--Williams demythologizes the 1950s, recalls his association with Zap Comix and R. Crumb, and reflects on today's retro rodders and his own hot rods. Illustrated throughout with photographs from Williams' personal collection as well as paintings and illustrations, this is a life portrait as only Robert Williams could do it., Graduating from the Chouinard Art Institute, Robert Williams joined Ed Roth at Roth Studios, and established his reputation as the world's foremost Hot Rod illustrator. Illustrated with personal photographs, paintings and sketches, this is his larger-than-life story.
LC Classification Number
TL140.W56A3 2006
As told to
Lavella, Mike
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