Description: The Transcendent Life and Art of Burt Shonberg
Review Quotes:
"Spencer Kansa has time-travelled. Knowing Burt as well as I did, it really does feel, from his assessments and descriptions, that Spencer actually knew him as well, and Burt, for sure, would have dug him. They would have had a good time. I can see Burt smiling; I'm serious. Spencer's venture undoes the old prediction of: you can't go back again. His book is a journey that surprised me to take. I visited people and places that stunned me to remember; things forgotten, I didn't know were even there. Familiar as my nose and my hand, but lost for a lifetime. I thank him for having the fascination and muscle to stick to it all the way down that singular oddity of a road he took to take us there." Hampton Fancher, screenwriter, Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049.
"A terrific biography... a real eye-opener... His artwork was all about beckoning us onward into the realm of our dreams, and Kansa's book goes a long way into helping us understand Shonberg's artistic mindset." Peter Fuller, Vincent Price Legacy UK."
"Kansa has written a suitably fitting and utterly compelling biography... His enthusiasm for his subject matter successfully carries the reader through the many strange, bizarre, moving, and magical events surrounding Shonberg's life, bringing some much-needed attention to this great unsung outsider artist." Paul Gallagher, Dangerous Minds