{"product_id":"9781616894542","title":"The Electric Pencil: Drawings from Inside State Hospital No. 3","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeeds's subtle, meticulous, and wildly imaginative pencil and crayon drawings portray an unusual cast of characters: nineteenth-century dandies, Civil War soldiers, antique cars, fantastic boats and trains, country landscapes dotted with roaming animals, and fanciful architecture. None of these existed in the actual mid-twentieth-century landscape of Deeds's own life, but rather were representations of his inner world—an artist's poignant tribute to a faded past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeeds lovingly bound his artwork in a cardboard and leather portfolio, a present for his mother. After being accidentally discarded in 1970, the album was rescued from the trash by a young boy and, thirty-six years later, came into the hands of artist and collector Harris Diamant, who provides the book's foreword. \u003ci\u003eThe Electric Pencil\u003c\/i\u003e features all 283 of Deeds's arresting drawings—now avidly collected—done on ledger sheets from State Hospital No. 3 in Nevada, Missouri, and reproduced in the sequence of the original album. \u003ci\u003eThe Electric Pencil\u003c\/i\u003e introduces readers to an astonishing record of one man's unwavering artistic vision in the face of the most inhospitable conditions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton Architectural Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051371020528,"sku":"9781616894542","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781616894542_p0.jpg?v=1763851625","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781616894542","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}