Robert Campbell (18 April 1951 – 28 May 2004) was an American artist and writer from
Marshall, Texas
Marshall is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat of Harrison County and a cultural and educational center of the Ark-La-Tex region. At the 2020 U.S. census, the population of Marshall was 23,392; The population of the Greater ...
. He studied art for two years at
Stephen F. Austin State University, then moved to
Los Angeles
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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
Kenny Loggins
Kenneth Clark Loggins (born January 7, 1948) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. His early songs were recorded with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1970, which led to seven albums recorded as Loggins and Messina from 1972 to 1977. His ...
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.) (
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 ...
, 2016)
* ''Robert Campbell: Collected Works 1976-2004'' by Robert Campbell & Pablo Capra (ed.) (
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 ...
, 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
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