| Notes: Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. "His perspective isn’t an ordinary historical view of this celebrated serial gathering of hippies, activists, and their spiritual kin. In Huffman’s paintings, kente cloth visually rhymes with hard- edge abstraction, the head of a sphinx merges with the face of his mom, and basketballs float alongside the moons of Jupiter and Pluto. One might easily mistake Huffman’s juxtaposition of seemingly antithetical modes of abstraction—hard-edge and expressionistic—as some kind of postmodernist ploy. It is not. Their presence in these paintings is not a clever or ironic art historical pose but, rather, an authentic and genuine reflection on his early life experience."- Lawrence Rinder in "David Huffman: The Awakening" |