Robert Campbell (18 April 1951 – 28 May 2004) was an American artist and writer from

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. He studied art for two years at Stephen F. Austin State University, then moved to

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, where he showed at Gallerie Rabindra. In the 1980s and 1990s, he worked as a scenic painter on MTV music videos, film, and theater. He plays himself in the

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music video for " Vox Humana." In 2002, he cofounded

Brass Tacks Press Brass Tacks Press, based in Los Angeles, has published over 50 books of poetry, prose, and comics since it was founded in 2002 by poets Robert Campbell, Pablo Capra, and Richard McDowell. A focus of Brass Tacks Press has been to publish books a ...

.Robert Campbell: Collected Works 1976-2004, Robert Campbell and Pablo Capra (ed.), Brass Tacks Press, 2022, , p. 9.

Selected titles

* ''On a Purple Spiral Floating'' by Robert Campbell & Pablo Capra (ed.) (

, 2016) * ''Robert Campbell: Collected Works 1976-2004'' by Robert Campbell & Pablo Capra (ed.) (

, 2022)

References

External links

Official Brass Tacks Press website
* 1951 births 2004 deaths 20th-century American painters 20th-century American poets 21st-century American poets African-American poets Modern painters Surrealist artists American publishers (people) People from Marshall, Texas Stephen F. Austin State University alumni {{US-painter-1950s-stub