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The Original Pink Flamingos: Splendor on the Grass
Don Featherstone
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Description for The Original Pink Flamingos: Splendor on the Grass
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, 105 color photos. BIC Classification: AFK; WC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 281 x 215 x 7. Weight in Grams: 502.
"In 1957, Don Featherstone sculptured the first three-dimensional pink plastic flamingo, thereby making affordable bad taste accessible to the American public"--from Pink Flamingos. This is the tale of a wonderful bird, named by his creator phoenicopteris ruber plasticus; a new avian species, now known to all as "Pink Plastic Flamingo." The more than one hundred pictures and the text in this volume are the result of Featherstone's request that adoring owners of the pink birds send original photographs that demonstrate their affection for phoenicopteris on its 40th birthday in 1997. An overwhelming response included such masterpieces as: "Biker Birds," "What ... Read more
"In 1957, Don Featherstone sculptured the first three-dimensional pink plastic flamingo, thereby making affordable bad taste accessible to the American public"--from Pink Flamingos. This is the tale of a wonderful bird, named by his creator phoenicopteris ruber plasticus; a new avian species, now known to all as "Pink Plastic Flamingo." The more than one hundred pictures and the text in this volume are the result of Featherstone's request that adoring owners of the pink birds send original photographs that demonstrate their affection for phoenicopteris on its 40th birthday in 1997. An overwhelming response included such masterpieces as: "Biker Birds," "What ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Weight
502g
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764309632
SKU
V9780764309632
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Ref
99-1
About Don Featherstone
More than 40 years ago, artist Don Featherstone capitulated to reality and accepted employment with Union Products, hired to render a white duck and a pink plastic flamingo in three dimensions. The rest is cultural pop history: the Featherstone flamingo was born.
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