‘Out There’: The Transcendent Life and Art of Burt Shonberg (2018)

His mural work drew the attention of independent movie-maker Roger Corman who hired Shonberg to paint the family portraits for his film version of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher starring Vincent Price. Kansa is an acclaimed novelist, writer, and outsider maverick who is ideally positioned to write the first major biography of Shonberg, Out There: The Transcendent Life and Art of Burt Shonberg. SK: In 1960, Burt was one of many artists who volunteered to be guinea pigs for Dr. Oscar Janiger’s experimental study into the effects of LSD-25 on the creative mind.

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