Overspray: Riding High with the Kings of California Airbrush Art
by Norman Hathaway
Hardcover, 226 Pages, Picturebox, $50
[currently available for $20 here]
Overspray is a another great visual resource from Picturebox, with many examples of ’70s airbrush art from four artists.
Many leading conceptual airbrush artists lived in California, for one simple reason, according to Mike Salisbury, a former art director of Rolling Stone. “There was so much illustration work in LA beginning about the year that Sgt. Pepper’s… was released,” Salisbury writes in his introductory essay to Overspray, by Norman Hathaway.
The book contains many of the most memorable examples from four prolific airbrushers — David Willardson, Charles E. White III, Peter Lloyd and Peter Palombi — in the realms of editorial work, record covers, and music and film promotion, showing how it evolved into a youth-culture visual style. -Steven Heller (NYT)
Check out the Overspray blog.
yo ALARM
Thanks for the blurb. I was looking for a cool airbrush book, will definitely check this out.