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Diary/Landscape (Hardcover)
James Welling; Introduction by Matthew S Witkovsky
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R1,257
Discovery Miles 12 570
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For more than thirty-five years, James Welling has explored the
material and conceptual possibilities of photography.
"Diary/Landscape"--the first mature body of work by this important
contemporary artist--set the framework for his subsequent
investigations of abstraction and his fascination with nineteenth-
and twentieth-century New England.
In July 1977, Welling began photographing a two-volume travel
diary kept by his great-grandmother Elizabeth C. Dixon, as well as
landscapes in southern Connecticut. In one closely cropped image,
lines of tight cursive share the page with a single ivy leaf
preserved in the diary. In another snowy image, a stand of leafless
trees occludes the gleaming Long Island sound. In subject and form,
Welling emulated the great American modernists Alfred Stieglitz,
Paul Strand, and Walker Evans--a bold move for an artist associated
with radical postmodernism. At the same time, Welling's close-ups
of handwriting push to the fore the postmodernist themes of copying
and reproduction.
A beautiful and moving meditation on family, history, memory, and
place, "Diary/Landscape" reintroduced history and private emotion
as subjects in high art, while also helping to usher in the
centrality of photography and theoretical questions about
originality that mark the epochal Pictures Generation. The book is
published to accompany the first-ever complete exhibition of this
series of pivotal photographs, now owned by the Art Institute of
Chicago.
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Drip (Paperback)
Tom Wells; Matthew Robins
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R310
R245
Discovery Miles 2 450
Save R65 (21%)
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'My mam's always saying, the best thing to do with new things is
just chuck yourself in at the deep end.' Liam is fifteen and he's
just signed up for Bev Road Baths' first ever synchronised swimming
team. It's for his best mate Caz really. She needs to get a team
together to win the annual Project Prize at school. She tries every
year. She always loses. But Liam's an optimist, he's determined to
help. There's just one problem. Liam can't swim... A one-man
musical comedy by award-winning duo Tom Wells and Matthew Robins,
Drip was first seen as part of the Back to Ours programme for Hull
UK City of Culture 2017. The play subsequently toured the UK in
2018, including runs at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Bush
Theatre, London, in a production by Boundless Theatre and Script
Club. This edition includes Matthew Robins' original sheet music.
'The man's become inhuman ... He has cut himself off from his kind.
His blood be upon his own head.' One night in the depths of winter,
a bizarre and sinister stranger wrapped in bandages and eccentric
clothing arrives in a remote English village. His peculiar,
secretive activities in the room he rents spook the locals.
Speculation about his identity becomes horror and disbelief when
the villagers discover that, beneath his disguise, he is invisible.
Griffin, as the man is called, is an embittered scientist who is
determined to exploit his extraordinary gifts, developed in the
course of brutal self-experimentation, in order to conduct a Reign
of Terror on the sleepy inhabitants of England. As the police close
in on him, he becomes ever more desperate and violent. In this
pioneering novella, subtitled 'A Grotesque Romance', Wells combines
comedy, both farcical and satirical, and tragedy - to superbly
unsettling effect. Since its publication in 1897, The Invisible Man
has haunted not only popular culture (in particular cinema) but
also the greatest and most experimental novels of the twentieth
century.
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