The Book of Joe
Features essays by Katherine Gates, Anthony,Haden-Guest, Jack Sargent and Asia Argento.,Visionary apocalyptic painter Joe Coleman's oeuvre,explores in excruciating detail the artist's,fascination with the junctions between saint and,sinner, sacred and profane, holy and horrifying.,Using a single-hair brush and jeweller's,magnifying lenses, Coleman packs his canvases with,hallucinatory detail. Coleman's subjects range,from John Dillinger and P.T. Barnum to outsider,artist Henry Darger and Gangs of New York-era,mass-murderer Albert Hicks.