Lenard Smith – Melancholy Objects illustration As a child during the

As a child during the Second World War the artist experienced the US air attacks on Tokyo and these became important motifs in his art: roaring American bombers

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Lenard Smith – Melancholy Objects illustration As a child during theIts no mistake that Lenard Smiths new book borrows its title from Susan Sontags 1977 essay of the same name. Melancholy Objects the Los Angeles based artists first publication for Perimeter Editions grounds the photographic endeavour in the surreal, the introspective, and the referential. Working in the tradition of the ragpicker, Smith sifts through personal and found objects to create formal compositions that gently intersect sculpture with the