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Hearts Work
(Hardcover)
Patricia Sweeden, Patrick Sweeden
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Rachel Owen's hauntingly beautiful illustrations for Dante's
Inferno take a radically new approach to representing the world of
Dante's famous poem. The images combine the artist's deep cultural
and historical understanding of 'The Divine Comedy' and its
artistic legacy with her unique talent for collage and printmaking.
These illustrations, casting the viewer as a first-person pilgrim
through the underworld, prompt us to rethink Dante's poem through
their novel perspective and visual language. Owen's work, held in
the Bodleian Library and published here for the first time,
illustrates the complete cycle of thirty-four cantos of the Inferno
with one image per canto. The illustrations are accompanied by
essays contextualising Owen's work and supplemented by six
illustrations intended for the unfinished Purgatorio series. Fiona
Whitehouse provides details of the techniques employed by the
artist, Peter Hainsworth situates Owen's work in the field of
modern Dante illustration and David Bowe offers a commentary on the
illustrations as gateways to Dante's poem. Jamie McKendrick and
Bernard O'Donoghue's translations of episodes from the 'Inferno'
provide complementary artistic interpretations of Dante's poem,
while reflections from colleagues and friends commemorate Owen's
life and work as an artist, scholar and teacher. This stunning
collection is an important contribution to both Dante scholarship
and illustration.
Over 100 global artists working with collage, as chosen by a team
of art experts - an indispensable who's who of the most exciting
and innovative names working in the medium Collage is an artistic
language comprising found images, fragmentary forms, and unexpected
juxtapositions. While it first gained status as high art in the
early twentieth century, the past decade has seen a fresh explosion
of artists using this dynamic and experimental approach to image
making. Organised in an A-Z sequence by artist, the book features
both well-known collagists including Njideka Akunyili Crosby; Ellen
Gallagher; Peter Kennard; Linder, Christian Marclay; Wangechi Mutu;
Deborah Roberts; Martha Rosler; and Mickalene Thomas, and a
plethora of lesser-known names deserving of greater attention.
Taking a broad definition - from analog cut-and-paste compositions
and photomontages to digital composed imagery and animations -
Vitamin C+ showcases 108 living artists who employ collage as a
central part of their visual-art practice, as selected by 69
leading experts, including museum directors, curators, critics, and
collectors. The survey also features an engaging and informative
introduction by Yuval Etgar, an internationally renowned expert in
the area. The 69 expert nominators include: Cecilia Alemani; Iwona
Blazwick; David Campany; Raphael Chikukwa; Patrick Elliott; Max
Hollein; Hettie Judah; Christine Macel; Roxana Marcoci; Duro Olowu;
Scott Rothkopf; Russell Tovey; Zoe Whitley; and Heidi Zuckerman.
Artists include: Njideka Akunyili Crosby; Kader Attia; Adam
Broomberg; Sara Cwynar; Moyna Flannigan; Ellen Gallagher; Lauren
Halsey; Lyle Ashton Harris; Thomas Hirschhorn; Peter Kennard;
Justine Kurland; Linder; Christian Marclay; Wangechi Mutu; Frida
Orupabo; Heather Philipson; Tabita Rezaire; Deborah Roberts; Martha
Rosler; Dee Shapiro; Eva Stenram; John Stezaker; Mickalene Thomas;
Kara Walker; and Billie Zangewa.
In 2009, the artist Anna Ostoya created a booklet with textual
collages using an essay by the political theorist Chantal Mouffe,
'Politics and Passions: The Stakes of Democracy' (2002). In the
essay, Mouffe critiqued the then-dominant 'beyond left and right'
politics of neoliberalism and warned of its dangers - the rise of
right-wing populist parties. Fascinated by Mouffe's strikingly
prophetic ideas, as well as her bold call to fight the status quo
in order to radicalise democracy and to prevent violence, Ostoya
returned to the booklet in 2019. She composed for it a series of
portraits based on sketches of people on the New York City subway
and on reproductions of her paintings and collages from the
preceding decade. She also conducted a conversation with Mouffe
about the politics of the last forty years, about the contemporary
moment and about art, which is included in this publication.
Taking a practical approach to colour, Colour: A workshop for
artists and designers is an invaluable resource for art students
and professionals alike. With its sequence of specially designed
assignments and in-depth discussions, it effectively bridges the
gap between colour theory and practice to inspire confidence and
understanding in anyone working with colour. This third edition is
updated with more contemporary examples drawn not just from
painting, but from textiles, graphic design, illustration and
animation. An expanded discussion of digital techniques, new
assignments and a refreshed design have all been brought together
to create a highly readable and relevant text.
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