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Title: Readable, funny, informative, unique
Review: This memoir probably infuriates many in the art world. I'm sure Hebborn would have infuriated me, in person. But the guy could write! I come across hardly any art books, especially by artists, that are written in an engaging everyday style. Hebborn could have been a journalist, but he just happened to be poor-born, misfitted, delinquent, driven, selfish, witty, and a bloody genius with pencil and paintbrush. I think I have read it cover to cover five times, always with pleasure. I find myself agreeing 95% with Hebborn's pronouncements; the missing 5% concerns what seem to be excuses and evasions. It is also a terrific guide through art history, and through art education. You don't have to be schooled in art to enjoy and learn from this book. Hebborn had an adventurous, hilarious, hedonistic life, which ended violently and not, in his prescient comments, unexpectedly early.Read it.
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