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An intimate account, in 3 interlocked subject matters, of 1 man's remarkably complicated life.

ART: Budd Hopkins is a nationally recognized summary Expressionist painter, with works within the collections of the Guggenheim, Whitney, and Metropolitan Museums, in addition to Boston's Museum of good Arts and New York's Museum of recent artwork. during this revealing memoir, Hopkins explains the advance of his paintings and describes with willing perception his friendships with senior artists resembling Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, and Robert Motherwell, and the significance he reveals of their paintings.

LIFE: starting along with his youth and early life in West Virginia, a interval that continues to be a important subject matter during this memoir, Hopkins is going directly to talk about his lifestyles as a sufferer of polio in the course of the pandemic of the Nineteen Thirties, his complicated dating together with his father, his participation within the recognized "Cedar Bar years" of summary Expressionism, his adventures evading the attentions of numerous well-liked participants in New York's as soon as closeted homosexual scene, and his summer season existence in Cape Cod.

UFOs: Hopkins has additionally spent greater than 30 years investigating unidentified flying object stories and is taken into account an international professional on unidentified flying object abductions. He has authored 4 seminal books at the topic, together with "Missing Time" and the recent York instances bestseller Intruders, which was once the topic of a CBS miniseries. one of the own or expert relationships he writes approximately in the course of his study are people with the astronomers Carl Sagan and J. Allen Hynek, the philanthropist Laurance Rockefeller, and the Harvard psychiatrist John Mack.

"[Written] in prose that flickers and delights, Budd's e-book will have interaction the satisfied cognizance of readers who do not know him or even have by no means heard of him. 'Art, existence and UFOs' does justice to all 3. it is a terrific e-book. it's also secure to assert that, given its detailed major personality, there'll by no means be one other one like it." -- Jerome Clark, Fate

"'Art, lifestyles and UFOs' is an important publication, one worthy interpreting rigorously. it's important and revealing...Whatever your tackle UFOs and abductions, you have to learn this e-book with the intention to comprehend the topic better...Hopkins's memoir is indispensable." -- Peter Brookesmith, Fortean Times