Over the past four decades John Buck (born Ames, Iowa, 1946), working out of his studios in Bozeman, Montana, and in Hawaii, has created a large and enormously important body of woodblock prints and rubbings, sculpture, and three-dimensional wood panels in which both his two and three-dimensional forms are saturated with a visual and spatial richness of images, icons, symbols, motifs, and an intensely lyrical and deeply authentic evocation of both the natural and social worlds. Tough-minded and visually complex, buck's art comprises a thorough and relentless examination of deeply personal and shared social concerns.This book includes works from throughout the artist's career: a comprehensive overview of his prints, representative works of wood sculpture, a selection of his shadowbox-like wood panels, and works from his little-known glass jar series. Ben Mitchell is curator of art of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, Washington. Other contributors include Eleanor Heartney, John Yau, and Bud Shark.