LAW & ORDER's Michael Moriarty in ACTORS AS ARTISTS book
Pamela T. Pon
ACTORS AS ARTISTS, by Jim McMullan and Dick Gautier, ISBN 1-885203-02-0,
published by Journey Editions, an imprint of the Charles E. Tuttle Company,
Inc. of Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, with editorial offices at 153 Milk Street,
Boston, MA 02109. Hardcover copyright 1992, first paperback printing 1994.
$25.00. Found my copy at Crown Books (SFBAers: still several left at
Millbrae, CA store).
It's a coffee-table book with 2-4 page color spreads on 77 actors who are also
artists, alphabetically arranged, each with personal commentary by the actors
(usually several paragraphs, but not always: the shortest is Katherine
Hepburn's, who simply writes, "My escape"), informed and well-rounded boxed
bios, and sample(s) of their work.
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Anyway, not only is Moriarty an Emmy/Tony/Theater World/Drama Desk/Golden
Globe-winning actor, composer for "chamber orchestra, string quartet, piano,
and solo violin," jazz pianist, Broadway musical actor/singer (MY FAIR LADY),
writer, published poet, published and professionally produced playwright, etc.
etc. etc., as well as extremely brief presidential candidate ;-), but he's also
an artist. His medium is unclear, but the sample given is in mixed media.
Quote excerpts:
"I have no formal art training but I did take some art history classes
at Dartmouth College.
"Art is not an avocation for me. It is more like a periodic urge to
pray in a different way ... my pieces exist because there was no other way to
reveal what was going on within me." (His sample is entitled, PRAYER TWO.)
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Other actors of possible rec.arts.tv interest:
Candice Bergen: photography, painting (watercolor, oil ...)
Richard Beymer: found objects
Pierce Brosnan: painting (acrylic ...)
Barbara Carrera: painting (oil ...)
Peter Falk: drawing (charcoal, pencil, crayon)
Jerry Hardin: sculpting (paper, plastic, clay, wood, bronze, now mainly bone)
Piper Laurie: sculpting (marble)
Duncan Regehr: painting (mainly oil, also colored pencil)
Burt Reynolds: charcoal?
Jane Seymour: painting (watercolor)
Russ Tamblyn: collages?
and many, many others.
I heartily recommend this book!
pamela pon
p...@best.com