Ernest Zobole

"This is the first monograph on Ernest Zobole (1927-99), an artist whose output over a fifty-year period was truly extraordinary." "The son of immigrant parents from southern Italy, Zobole was born in the heart of the Rhondda Valley, an area that had become world famous for its coal. He took that place, with its very particular geography and community, as the primary inspiration for his original and imaginative images." "The cumulative effect of Zobole's imaging is revelatory because his pictures go far beyond local and even national concerns, and surely establish him as an artist of European sensibility and standing."--Jacket.