Book Review

Floating Cities (1992)

Stephen Wiltshire
Feb 28, 1992

Details Writer: Stephen Wiltshire; Genres: Art/Fine Art, Nonfiction; Publisher: Summit

The insistence that the 16-year-old autistic boy who produced these drawings of Moscow, Leningrad, Venice, and Amsterdam is a great artist detracts somehow from the appeal of his work. Looked at without that evaluation the pictures in Floating Cities provide a deeply interesting view of how the outside world appears to someone enclosed in a private universe. A

Originally posted Feb 28, 1992 Published in issue #107 Feb 28, 1992 Order article reprints

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