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Before her death, the artist and writer Leonora Carrington
(1917–2011) had already garnered a cult following, with numerous
creative people making the pilgrimage to meet her at her home in
Mexico City. Since then, her fame has only increased. Thinking
across contemporary art media, this book demonstrates how
Carrington has posthumously become a medium in her own right,
critically haunting the creative intellectuals who met or knew her.
It explores the work of a remarkable variety of individuals and
organisations, including the artists Lucy Skaer, Samantha Sweeting
and Lynn Lu, the actress Tilda Swinton, the novelists Chloe Aridjis
and Heidi Sopinka and the ensemble Double Edge Theatre. This
long-awaited study provides essential reading for both new and
established members of the burgeoning Carrington fan club. -- .
In A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning's Chasm, Catriona
McAra offers the first critical study of the literary work of the
celebrated American painter and sculptor Dorothea Tanning
(1910-2012). McAra fills a major gap in the scholarship,
repositioning Tanning's writing at the centre of her entire
creative oeuvre and focusing on a little-known short story "Abyss,"
a gothic-flavoured, desert adventure which Tanning worked on
intermittently throughout her creative life, finally publishing it
in 2004 as Chasm: A Weekend. McAra performs a major reassessment of
the visual and literary principles upon which the surrealist
movement was initially founded. Combining a groundbreaking
methodological approach with reference to cultural theory and
feminist aesthetics as well as Tanning's unpublished journals and
notes, McAra reveals Tanning as a key player in contemporary art
practice as well as in the historical surrealist milieu.
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was an English surrealist artist and
writer who emigrated to Mexico after the Second World War. This
volume approaches Carrington as a major international figure in
modern and contemporary art, literature and thought. It offers an
interdisciplinary exploration of the intellectual, literary and
artistic currents that animate her contribution to experimental art
movements throughout the Western Hemisphere, including surrealism
and magical realism. The book contains nine chapters from scholars
of modern literature and art, each focusing on a major feature in
Carrington's career. It also features a visual essay drawn from the
2015 Tate Liverpool exhibition Leonora Carrington: Transgressing
Discipline, and two experimental essays by the novelist Chloe
Aridjis and the scholar Gabriel Weisz, Carrington's son. This
collection offers a resource for students, researchers and readers
interested in Carrington's works. -- .
Before her death, the artist and writer Leonora Carrington
(1917-2011) had already garnered a cult following, with numerous
creative people making the pilgrimage to meet her at her home in
Mexico City. Since then, her fame has only increased. Thinking
across contemporary art media, this book demonstrates how
Carrington has posthumously become a medium in her own right,
critically haunting the creative intellectuals who met or knew her.
It explores the work of a remarkable variety of individuals and
organisations, including the artists Lucy Skaer, Samantha Sweeting
and Lynn Lu, the actress Tilda Swinton, the novelists Chloe Aridjis
and Heidi Sopinka and the ensemble Double Edge Theatre. This
long-awaited study provides essential reading for both new and
established members of the burgeoning Carrington fan club. -- .
In A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning's Chasm, Catriona
McAra offers the first critical study of the literary work of the
celebrated American painter and sculptor Dorothea Tanning
(1910-2012). McAra fills a major gap in the scholarship,
repositioning Tanning's writing at the centre of her entire
creative oeuvre and focusing on a little-known short story "Abyss,"
a gothic-flavoured, desert adventure which Tanning worked on
intermittently throughout her creative life, finally publishing it
in 2004 as Chasm: A Weekend. McAra performs a major reassessment of
the visual and literary principles upon which the surrealist
movement was initially founded. Combining a groundbreaking
methodological approach with reference to cultural theory and
feminist aesthetics as well as Tanning's unpublished journals and
notes, McAra reveals Tanning as a key player in contemporary art
practice as well as in the historical surrealist milieu.
The photomontage pieces that form the core of this project are
built around a repeating grid of 15 rectangles into which
photographs from a specific location are placed to form a playful
spirit or 'phantom' of place. Each phantom is from a different
location and each site chosen has personal resonances or relates to
the history of surrealism in Britain and Europe. The works are both
an interpretation of landscape and place as well as an opportunity
to explore the history of the surrealist movement in Britain and
how the idea of surrealism is often tied to landscape explored, not
for its picturesque or romantic aspects but for its psychological
and visionary resonance.
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was an English surrealist artist and
writer who emigrated to Mexico after the Second World War. As the
first comprehensive examination of Carrington's writing and art,
this volume approaches her as a major international figure in
modern and contemporary art, literature and thought. It offers an
interdisciplinary exploration of the intellectual, literary and
artistic currents that animate her contribution to experimental art
movements throughout the Western Hemisphere, including surrealism
and magical realism. In addition to a substantive editorial
introduction, the book contains nine chapters from scholars of
modern literature and art, each focusing on a major feature in
Carrington's career. It also features a visual essay drawn from the
2015 Tate Liverpool exhibition Leonora Carrington: Transgressing
Discipline, and two experimental essays by the novelist Chloe
Aridjis and the scholar Gabriel Weisz, Carrington's son. This
collection offers a resource for students, researchers and readers
interested in Carrington's works, and contributes to her continued
rise in global recognition. -- .
For almost two decades now, Tessa Farmer has been evolving a new
species of fairy. They represent the point at which science tilts
into fantasy - as the sleep of reason produces monsters. In
Fairyland is the first substantial scholarly volume devoted to
Farmer's work. Here, leading thinkers in the fields of animal art,
natural history and gothic studies assemble to investigate the
significance of Farmer and her fairies, covering aspects from their
relationship to fairy traditions in folklore and art, to
entomological precedents for the malevolent behaviors of her
creations.
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Kate Mccgwire (Hardcover)
Kate MccGwire; Edited by Mark Sanders; Catriona McAra, Jane Neal
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R1,115
Discovery Miles 11 150
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Kate MccGwire is an internationally renowned British sculptor whose
practice revolves around the uncanny. Employing natural materials
and in particular, feathers, MccGwire creates arresting, sensuous,
otherworldly sculptures and site-specific works, exploring ideas
relating to Sigmund Freud's notion of the 'unhomely' and often
rendering the familiar strange and disturbing. This major monograph
features works spanning her career, from the unsettling fabric and
clothing works of the turn of the millennium through to the
fantastical site-specific installation and interventions of her
solo exhibition in 2020 at Harewood House. In her essay for the
publication, independent curator and writer Jane Neal explores
themes of childhood and family, nature and the body, physics and
metaphysics, opening up connections between MccGwire's works and
myths, legends and belief systems across time and cultures. The
second essay, by Dr Catriona McAra, an art historian and Curator at
Leeds Arts University, explores MccGwire's oeuvre in relation to
the history of soft sculpture, abstraction and surrealism. Lavishly
illustrated with around 140 images, the publication has been edited
by independent curator and writer Mark Sanders and designed and
produced by Peter B. Willberg. It is published by Anomie
Publishing, London. Kate MccGwire (b.1964, Norfolk, UK), undertook
a BA in Fine Art at University College for the Creative Arts,
Farnham, before completing an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College
of Art, London. Solo exhibitions include 'Menagerie', Harewood
House, Leeds (2020); 'Dichotomy', The Harley Gallery, Welbeck, UK
(2018); 'Sasse/Sluice', Aldeburgh Festival, UK (2018); 'Secrete',
Galerie Huit, Hong Kong (2016); 'Scissure', La Galerie
Particuliere, Paris (2016); and 'Covert', Musee de la Chasse et de
la Nature, Paris (2014). She has featured in group exhibitions at
venues including the Fondazione Berengo, Murano, Italy;
Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Guerlain House, Paris;
Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun, Poland; Anton Ulrich Museum,
Braunschweig, Germany; the Museum of Arts & Design, New York;
and the Contemporary Art Society, London. In 2018 she was the
winner of The Royal Academy of Arts, Jack Goldhill Award for
Sculpture.
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