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Juan Davila is a painter who passionately believes in using art to
facilitate social change. Davila was born in Santiago, Chile, and
moved to Australia in the 1970s to escape the violent totalitarian
regime of Pinochet. His work had an immediate impact on the
Australian art scene and he has since become one of Australia's
most respected and creative artists and is represented in all State
and National art museums. His work addresses international issues,
especially with reference to Latin American and Australian themes,
and he draws on his own experiences of repression and loss suffered
during Chile's dark history. Davila's art - beautiful, complex,
confronting and provocative - sets to counter indifference in the
community and spark intellectual discourse on many issues in the
international political landscape - terrorism, refugees, political
and social rights and undemocratic governments.
First published in 1993 Interviews-Artists is a body of thirty
seven recorded conversations made since 1988. In considering their
work, often in the context of a current exhibition, artists discuss
their ideas in formation and the factors which have informed their
development. Read together, another picture emerges of unexpected
links between the makers, in the expression of their concerns, in
the work and with the world beyond, that forms a unique and
coherent overview of the developing art of our time.
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Ecology Works - John Newling
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Richard Davey, Ann Douglas, Mark Hope, Jonathan Casciani; Text written by John Newling; Foreword by …
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In Luchino Visconti and the Fabric of Cinema, Joe McElhaney
situates Visconti's films as privileged and deeply expressive
instances of a trope that McElhaney identifies as the ""cinema of
fabric"": a reoccurrence in film in which textiles-clothing,
curtains, tablecloths, bedsheets-determine the filming process. An
Italian neorealist, Visconti emerges out of a movement immediately
following WWII wherein fabric assumes crucial functions, yet
Visconti's use of fabric surpasses his colleagues in many ways,
including its fluid, multifaceted articulations of space and time.
Visconti's homosexuality is central to this theory in that it
assumes metaphoric potential in addressing ""forbidden"" sexual
desires that are made visible in the films. Visconti's cinema of
fabric gives voice to desires not simply for human bodies draped in
fabric but also for entire environments, a world of the senses in
which fabric becomes a crucial method for giving form to such
desires. McElhaney examines Visconti's neorealist origins in
Ossessione, La terra trema, and Rocco and His Brothers,
particularly through fabric's function within literary realism and
naturalism. Neorealist revisionism through the extravagant drapings
of the diva film is examined in Bellissima and Senso whereas White
Nights and The Stranger are examined for the theatricalizing
through fabric of their literary sources. Visconti's interest in
German culture vis-?a-vis The Damned, Death in Venice, and Ludwig,
is articulated through a complex intertwining of fabric,
aesthetics, politics, and transgressive sexual desire. Finally,
Visconti's final two films, Conversation Piece and The Innocent,
assess through fabric both the origins of Italian fascism and the
political tensions contemporaneous with the films' productions.
Fabric in Visconti is often tied to the aesthetic impulse itself in
a world of visionaries attempting to dominate their surrounding
environments and where a single piece of fabric may come to
represent the raw material for creation. This book will tantalize
any reader with a keen eye and strong interest in film and queer
studies.
In The Image Business, Steve Powell's autobiography lifts the lid
on the development of sports photography and photojournalism. With
a no holds barred account of his life as a working photographer and
business innovator, he tells of covering world-beating sporting
successes and occasional failures, and of how he built the Allsport
Photographic agency into an industry leader that made him a
millionaire. "The authors' experiences are so vast and often
outrageous that it's easy to forget that this is a true story." L
Lemay. He has worked with everyone from world beating powerboat
racers to Olympic greats such as Seb Coe and Daley Thompson.
Muhammad Ali, Bjorn Borg, Seve Ballesteros and Diego Maradona have
all been his subjects during a lifetime of capturing iconic images.
"In a book market full of often told stories, this is a unique and
compelling read." MarcoVB. Unique insights into the athletes and
administrators who shaped sport over thirty years could only come
from a true insider. He gives a fascinating and fast-paced
narrative of a career that began on the gritty streets of London
and took him to every global arena where sport is played, working
with every major publication and sponsor as he developed ways to
help them deliver their messages. - "This book is right up there
with Phil Knight's "Shoe Dog"." Anonymous Powell reveals the
struggles of an emerging independent agency as it fought to gain
recognition, how it helped break the union stranglehold on Fleet
Street and established Allsport and its photographers as the go-to
source for all that was best in the emerging sports photography
industry. - "This is a thoroughly entertaining book and, I believe,
an important one." R Bundy. Follow his riveting personal narrative
as he describes how he overcame personality clashes that almost
brought the agency to its knees and how riding the tide of
advancing technologies helped create a unique business model.
Always just one step ahead of the opposition, his career mirrors
how he harnessed fast moving changes in the industry to create his
own unique place in sports media history. "(The author) has you
feeling as if you are right there living it alongside him."
Anonymous. This is the story of the man who built the world's
biggest and most famous sports photography business and under whose
guidance, became the first official photographer to the
International Olympic Committee and worked with every major
sporting organisation, governing body and athlete in Europe, and
North America. "A truly inspiring read, by a truly inspiring guy.
His life, his travels keep you reading until the end. What a life,
great read." J Tilley. Finally, the book traces with engaging
candour his learning curve in preparing the company for sale,
turning the business of capturing images into capitalising images
as a business. The buyer was Mark Getty and guided by Powell,
Allsport became a bedrock in the rapidly emerging Getty Images and
made Powell more successful than he could have imagined.
This book provides an informal biography of the wunderkind who
became one of America's greatest living artists and most well-known
architects. Many are familiar with the art and architectural design
work of Maya Lin, but the compelling details of her personal
background are less well known. This book not only focuses upon
Lin's substantial achievements throughout her life, but also
presents Maya Lin's "prehistory," describing family events in China
that led to her parents' flight to the United States. Author Donald
Langmead guides readers through Lin's ancestry and family
connections in precommunist China; her childhood and youth in
Athens, Ohio; the story behind the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in
Washington, DC; her career after 1982 (by decades); and emphasis on
environmental conservation. Written for a young adult and general
readership, Maya Lin: A Biography provides an up-to-date
description of how she became one of the most famous and respected
artists in America. Provides a timeline of Maya Lin's significant
life events, artworks, and exhibitions Includes various photographs
to accompany the text Contains a bibliography organized by types of
sources, including writings by Maya Lin, books, monographs and
catalogues, transcripts of interviews, and videos Includes an index
of important people and artworks
Laura Knight (1877-1970) was one of the most distinguished women
artist of the early 20th century with an international reputation.
This highly readable and objective biography covers her early years
in Nottingham, her relationship with her husband Harold, life in
the artists colonies of Staithes on the North Yorkshire coast, her
immersion in the world of ballet, the circus and theatre and her
travels in Europe and America. It also examines her role as
Official War Artist during World War II and recorder of the
Nuremberg Trials in 1945-46. This revised and updated book offers
so much more than just an account of an artist's work, it allows
the reader to experience the vibrant personality of the artist as
well as the darker shades of her personality. It gives this
portrait of an artist depth and perspective.
James Cahill presents a review of a new exhibition by the renowned
artist Francesco Clemente,(b.1952) exploring his first show in
London for seven years. The monograph includes a conversation
recorded with the artist in which he discusses the new paintings,
and the ideas which grounded their development. Clemente embodies a
binding of different cultures: the Western Italian Renaissance,
Eastern philosophy of Buddhism and the Mandala; formed in a life
divided between New York and India. The exhibition of fourteen
works at Blain|Southern, Hanover Square, is entitled 'Mandala for
Crusoe' and runs until 26th January 2013. Francesco Clemente (b.
1952, Naples, Italy) is a renowned artist from the
Neo-Expressionist movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s. From
1970 he studied architecture at the University of Rome, and began
to exhibit his drawings, photographs and conceptual works in
Europe. From 1973, he travelled regularly to India, and in 1981 he
moved to New York. He collaborated with close friends, notably the
poets Allen Ginsberg and Robert Creeley, and reacting against a
wave of anti-painting sentiment among critical circles, Clemente
initiated a series of collaborative paintings with Jean-Michel
Basquiat and Andy Warhol. Since the mid-1980s, Clemente's work has
been the subject of many international solo exhibitions, including;
Nationalgalerie, Berlin (1984 - 5); Kunstmuseum Basel (1987);
Philadelphia Museum of Art (1990); Royal Academy of Arts, London
(1990); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1994 - 5); Guggenheim
Museum, New York (1999 - 2000); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
(2004); Museo MAXXI, Rome (2006); Museum MADRE, Naples (2009); and
more recently at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2011) and the
Uffizi Gallery, Florence (2011). His works have also been included
in notable group exhibitions including Documenta 7 in 1982 and the
Venice Biennale in 1988 and 1995. Clemente is a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters. (Blain|Southern)
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