The Sweetly Diabolic Art Of Jim Flora burnishes the reputation of one of the great overlooked paintbox fantasists of the 20th century. Like the first two volumes of Floriana, Sweetly Diabolic features paintings, drawings, and sketches from the 1940s through the '90s, many never previously published or exhibited; more artifacts from the artist's 1940s tenure in the Columbia Records art department; and vintage newspaper and magazine illustrations.

This collection also heralds the first publication of an early, abandoned children's book, The X-Ray Eye of Wallingford Hume, which Flora drafted in 1943. Equally fascinating are original overlays, and concept images for his 1950s and '60s published tot-lit. A gallery of 1940s pen and pencil sketches invokes a catacomb of nightmarish apparitions and inscrutable petroglyphs. In addition, Sweetly Diabolic collects a sideshow of science widgetry from a short-lived, now-obscure mid-1950s monthly, Research & Engineering, for which Flora served as art director. Chronicles of Flora's career, personal vignettes, and mementoes from the family archives augment the images.

THE AUTHORS:

Irwin Chusid is a Jim Flora's biographer extraordinaire; a journalist, music historian, radio personality and self-described "landmark preservationist." His stated mission has been to "find things on the scrapheap of history that I know don't belong there and salvage them." He manages the Jim Flora virtual archive at jimflora.com and all round Flora expert.

Barbara Economon provides all image restoration for the Flora collection.

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