Ebook: Sign Language: a Painter's Notebook

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Wish you were here: An Introduction by Bradley Rubenstein; Hybrid; Courtship and the Tower; Breakfast on Mars (The Outdoors Revisited); Souvenir for Joe; The Green Footlocker; By Train; Hot; Nothing is Wrong; Pussycat; The Wishing Pole; Just Wed; Muse; Walk Don't Walk; I Am a Street Framed in a Window; Vertigo; The Poet we are Missing; A Short Stretch; Hero; Hunting with Guido; Invitation to the Cockpit; Cubism Today; Painting Whiskey; The Top Floor (A Rake's Progress); List of Illustrations; About the Author.;In photos, drawings and words, Sign Language pays homage to the lost art of urban outdoor sign painting. In a working environment both novel and ambitious, author John S. Paul found success, noting, ""No other job gave me such a direct impact on the urban landscape, or such physical engagement. Painting signs over Broadway in 1984 was a rare look down from the elevated height of a heroic messenger."" Few books have ever provided such an insider perspective into this unique livelihood of days past. In 40 photos and 30 poems and stories, the author creates an immersion into a rarefied world on d.