Biography
Charles Hobson is an artist who uses pastel, monotype and other printmaking variations to construct images for books and works on paper. He often works in series, follows a historical theme, and employs the monotype as an under painting for further work with pastel, acrylic and printed texts. He began creating artist's books after working on a tribute book for a friend, Bruce Nelson, after his death in 1984. The book contained Nelson's prose in a small letterpress edition. His first artist's book was Supper in Montmartre which came out in 1985.
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1985
Supper in Montmartre
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1988
Flaubert and Louise
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1990
Leonardo Knows Baseball (trade edition, 1991)
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1991
Degas Dancing
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1991
Variations on the Word SLEEP
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1994
Balzac's Coffee Pot
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1994
Impromptu
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1994
Parisian Encounters
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1995
Breton's Dream
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1995
Clouds and Dreams
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1995
Magritte's Buckets
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1995
Man Ray's Kiss
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1996
Shipwreck Stories
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1997
Fresnel's Tower
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1997
Lighthouse Legends
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1998
Andromeda Imagined
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1999
Human Touch
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1999
Writing on the Body
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2000
Dancing with Amelia
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2001
Anotaciones
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2001
Seeing Stars
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2002
Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes
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2003
Adam and Eve
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2003
Three Kisses
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2004
Poems from the Heart
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2004
The Writer
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2005
The Mappist
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2006
The Near Woods
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2006
R.O.W.
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2006
red thread, two women
From the guide to the Charles Hobson collection: design and production materials for artist's books, 1985-2008, (Department of Special Collections and University Archives)