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An intimate account,
in three interlocked themes,
of one man's
remarkably complex life.
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ART,
LIFE AND UFOs
A
memoir by Budd Hopkins
Anomalist
Books
Trade Paperback,
$19.95
ISBN: 1933665416
438 pages, 35 illustrations
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ART:
Budd Hopkins is a nationally known Abstract Expressionist painter, with
works in the collections of the Guggenheim, Whitney, and Metropolitan
Museums, as well as Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and New York's Museum
of Modern Art. In this revealing memoir, Hopkins explains the
development of his work and describes with keen insight his friendships
with senior artists such as Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, and Robert
Motherwell, and the importance he finds in their work.
LIFE:
Beginning with his childhood and youth in West Virginia, a period that
remains a central theme in this memoir, Hopkins goes on to discuss his
life as a victim of polio during the pandemic of the 1930s, his complex
relationship with his father, his participation in the famous “Cedar
Bar years” of Abstract Expressionism, his adventures evading the
attentions of several prominent members in New York's once closeted gay
scene, and his summer life in Cape Cod.
UFOs: Hopkins has also
spent more than 30 years investigating UFO reports and is considered a
world expert on UFO abductions. He has authored four seminal books on
the subject, including Missing
Time and the New
York Times bestseller Intruders,
which was the subject of a CBS miniseries. Among the personal or
professional relationships he writes about during his research are
those with the astronomers Carl Sagan and J. Allen Hynek, the
philanthropist Laurence Rockefeller, and the Harvard psychiatrist John
Mack.
CONTENTS
PART ONE: BEGINNINGS
Wheeling, West
Virginia
The Night of the Martians
Washington, D. C., and the Coming War
Toy Guns and a Real Bomber
Family Racism
Sex in the Boonies
Elite Imprisonment
PART TWO: ART
Art, Oberlin, and a New Life
Nicki, the Motherwell Seminar, and Europe
Manhattan, At Last
Three Painters:
Mark Rothko
Jackson Pollock
Franz Kline
Struggling Through the 1950s
Politicians, Writers, and Musicians
Dodging Hits
A New, Life-Changing Decade
The August UFO Sighting
Aftermath
October 31, 1966
Navigating Some Turbulent Times
April, Grace, and Mahler’s Castle
PART THREE: UFOs
One Mile from Broadway
Catching Up
The Erosion of Doubt
The Case of the Connecticut Hikers
Guardians, Temples, and
Altars
Longpoint
Gallery
Missing Time
NBC News – The Catalyst
Straddling Two Lives
Calming the Tremors
Robert Motherwell and the Sculpture Years
Intruders
The Novelist and the Movie Star
The Curious Case of Carl Sagan
The March to Seniorhood
Three Portrait Sketches:
J. Allen Hynek
John Mack
Laurence Rockefeller
Life in the New Millennium
PART FOUR: A FEW FURTHER THOUGHTS
Cape Cod and New York
Soul Map
Index
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What they're saying about this book...
"This
is an excellent book – well written, compulsively readable, often
funny, enlightening. Budd sent it to me in manuscript, and I
raced through it in several sittings. I recommend it
highly.'" – UFO historian Jerome Clark
Praise for his previous UFO books...
"All Mr. Hopkins is asking for in these
pages is a hearing, and he deserves that. His yarn is much too
interesting to put down." – New
York Times
"One
comes to a tender regard for Hopkins's subjects. Their uniform
similarities of description of their UFO abductions and of the aliens
bear a faithful fact that could sway many an ironclad
skeptic."– Kirkus
Reviews
"Any reader keeping an open mind is
unlikely to dismiss Hopkins's...contentions out-of-hand." – New York Post
"Hopkins' disarming manner
as he leads the reader through the steps of his research adds
credibility to the science fictional aspects of this account." – Publishers Weekly
The CBS miniseries based on
Budd Hopkins' book Intruders
"...pleads a convincing case to the effect that the invasion from outer
space is not fiction but fact." – Houston Chronicle
Accolades for his art...
"One of the
year's best shows and one which
fills in the blank space after an unanswered question 'whatever
happened to Abstract Expressionism?'” – New York Times
“Hopkins
blends the bold brushwork of action painting with the clean-cut,
emblematic colors of hard-edged abstraction. The
canvases are large, the spectrum vibrant, the manner authoritative.” – Time
“Hera's Wall has
the wide range and the unity of a masterpiece.” – Art in America
"Hopkins...gets
just the right degree of ambiguity into his guardian figures...and they
have
both the coiled energy of a human being on the watch and the density
and assurance of color that we ask of geometric abstract painting. They
are the best paintings that Mr. Hopkins has done." – New York Times
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