RARE! ROBERT HODGINS BY IVOR POWELL, FIRST EDITION, 1996

RARE! "ROBERT HODGINS" BY IVOR POWELL. FIRST EDITION, 1996, SOFTCOVER PICTORIAL BOARD, 21 PAGES, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. PUBLISHED BY ROBERT HODGINS, JOHANNESBURG, 1996. SCARCE BOOK ON A REOWN LISTED SOUTH AFRICAN ARTIST. ESSENTIAL FOR ANY SERIOUS ART COLLECTOR/ART BOOK COLLECTION.

"Ivor Powell recounts how in the early 1980s Robert Hodgins's paintings underwent a metamorphosis of sorts, that the artist changed gears, a change that is specifically discernible in a series of mainly small paintings made around the figure of Alfred Jarry's Ubu. Hodgins speaks of Ubu as "not only ignoble, he is a familiar historical figure: the clown is in power, the clown who seems so funny that it's easy to forget he is evil." Powell observes that Hodgins continued to appropriate Ubu but that few of the Ubu images actually refer directly to any event or place or personage in South Africa." - Online summary