Shiva's Really Scary Gifts
Governor General's Award-winning visual artist John Scott is perhaps best known for his Trans Am of the Apocalypse , a car with the entire Book of Revelation scratched onto it, which is on display at the National Gallery of Canada. As Ann MacDonald discovered when she began working with him, Scott's personal life is no less compelling. So she sat down with Scott, a tape recorder and a stack of napkins for him to draw on - Shiva's Really Scary Gifts is the result. From catching a baseball bat in the teeth to harbouring the FBI's most-wanted fugitive in his Queen Street studio, John Scott has, it seems, done it all. Join him as he, in words and drawings, terrifies a pair of robbers, loses a parent, and struggles to get a gun permit for an art installation - John Scott's intriguing stories and the hundred accompanying drawings will help you get to know the man behind the Am . Shiva's Really Scary Gifts is a self-portrait of the artist as a delusional, diseased and debauched young man, a book as hilarious as it is touching.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1552450910
ISBN13:9781552450918
Release Date:May 1998
Publisher:Coach House Books
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.57 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 7.0"
Customer Reviews
1 rating
An almost unbelievable character!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
John has been a friend of mine for many years now, and I've always been amazed at some of the absurd and hilarioius situations that he finds himself in. I'm glad that he finally got a few of them in print. The reader of these stories may find some of them hard to believe, but if they ever got a chance to meet John in person, they'd soon realize just how true they all are. I know of a great many more that didn't make it into the book for various reasons -subject still alive; litigation; self-incrimination; etc.- that seem much more far fetched that some of the vignettes presented in "Shiva's......" John is perhaps the warmest, and friendliest person I know, as well as one of the most intellegent, which makes the book even more interesting. For her part, Ann MacDonald did a fabulous job of collecting and editing John's stories and presenting them in a clear and concise manner. I KNOW that without Ann, John could never have completed this book.
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