Extreme Canvas Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana by Ernie Wolfe, III 9" x 12", 305 Pages Essays by: Clive Barker LeVar Burton Joe Coleman Deirdre Evans-Pritchard Walter Hill Angelica Huston John Milius Roy Sieber Paul Hayes Tucker Gus Van Sant Ernie Wolfe, III John Yau **SOLD OUT**
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In the 1980s a group of entrepreneurs in Ghana created small-scale, mobile film distribution empires, hitting the road with videocassettes, television monitors, portable gas-powered generators and rolled-up, hand-painted, artist-signed canvas posters. This new medium created the first opportunity for some of the best young painters in Ghana to express themselves on a public scale. In the frequent absence of an original image upon which to base the work they had been commissioned to produce, the artists in this book inevitably created cinematic paintings that were largely interpretive and imagination-driven.

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