Riding Some Kind of Unusual Skull Sleigh: On the Arts of Don Van Vliet

by W.C. Bamberger

Biography. Art Criticism. For more than seventeen years, Don Van Vliet made music under the name Captain Beefheart. When he walked away from music, he turned to his other art and is now an internationally known and collected abstract painter. RIDING SOME KIND OF UNUSUAL SKULL SLEIGH looks at the phases of Van Vliet's musical career through the lens of the new, ecological theories of mind which were emerging at the time Captain Beefheart and the Magic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0917453352
• ISBN13: 9780917453359
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Alap Editions
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Both sides of Captain Beefheart arts

Very interesting 200 pages book that explores both sides of Captain Beefheart arts :music and painting.It analyses his ecological view of interconnection of all things that will disappear with his 1986 painting "Riding some kind of unusual skull sleigh " which is the last painting to include a human figure. Recommended

Trout Mask Original

Bamberger is to Beefheart as Sandberg is to Lincoln. This is the primer and reference book for the subject. Bamberger's detailed descriptions and thoughtful insight will give any reader a greater appreciation of this phenomenal artist. If you have listened to "Trout Mask Replica" more than once or are curious about Van Vliet the artist, you must have this book.