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The visual arts in Wales are in ferment. The growing fascination in
painters, installation artists, sculptors and those working in
mixed and electronic media has been reflected both in booming sales
and private gallery growth on the one hand and, institutionally, by
new public gallery space, a first Welsh pavilion at the 2003 Venice
Biennale and the worldwide Artes Mundi Prize. Here + Now offers a
welcome and in depth survey of the visual arts in Wales, addressing
as it does the practise of individual artists and the
infrastructure in which they work. Here are essays on artists as
diverse as established painters Ivor Davies and the late Ernest
Zobole, through younger painters like Neal Howells, Elfyn Lewis and
Sue Williams, to installation artist David Hastie and the
internationally acclaimed performance artist Andre Stitt. Beyond
the artist, author Iwan Bala explores what art might mean in Wales
and to the Welsh, in essays about the representation of Welsh
history and culture in the visual arts. He also discusses the
controversial issue of how art is curated in Wales and who decides
what the public sees. This stimulating book offers a snapshot of
contemporary Welsh art and explores how it functions on the wider
stage of world art.
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