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Wreck - Gericault's Raft and the Art of Being Lost at Sea (Hardcover)
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Wreck - Gericault's Raft and the Art of Being Lost at Sea (Hardcover)
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List price R535
Loot Price R438
Discovery Miles 4 380
You Save R97 (18%)
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An artist's obsession with Gericault's monumental painting The Raft
of the Medusa, and an intensely personal reckoning that delves deep
inside the making of an artwork. Artist Tom de Freston has long had
an obsession with Gericault's painting The Raft of the Medusa, and
the troubling story behind its creation. The monumental canvas,
which hangs in the Louvre, depicts a 19th century tragedy in which
150 people were drowned at sea on a raft lost in a stormy sea, when
the ship Medusa was wrecked on shallow ground. When de Freston
began making an artwork with Ali, a Syrian writer blinded by a
bombing, The Raft's depiction of pain and suffering resonated
powerfully with him, as did Gericault's awful life story. It spoke
not only to Ali's story but to Tom's family history of trauma and
anguish, offering him a passage out of the dark waters in which he
found himself. In spellbinding, visceral prose, de Freston opens a
window onto the magnetic frisson that runs between a past
masterpiece and contemporary artistic endeavours. He asks powerful
questions about how we might translate violence, fear and trauma
into art, how we try to make sense of seemingly unthinkable acts,
and the value in facing and depicting the darkest horrors.
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