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Grande's latest book, ""Dialogues in Diversity: From Marginal to Mainstream"", is inspired by a series of dialogues with artists. It paints a wide spectrum, for it ranges from discussions with well known international artists including Antony Gormley in the UK and Alan Sonfish in the USA to indigenous artists and those from marginalized cultures. In each case, the artist has something important to say to us. ""Dialogues in Diversity"" will make readers aware that the centres of the art world feed on the margins, just as artists from countries as diverse as Senegal, Chile, Mexico, and Norway have unique perspectives to offer the mainstream art market of today's Paris, London or New York. Many of these artists echo Grande's own concern: What is the relationship of art to the environment - both natural landscape and cityscape? Just how can art make us see and think about the world around us? What can art do to preserve the future of our planet? And how can it enrich out lives? This is far removed from the average book of academic art criticism for it is an exciting engagement with the reader about the ways art impacts our lives.

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As the title itself suggests, this book is a reminder of how much art has changed in the past few decades. Contemporary art exists in more places than it ever did previously. It references more cultures. It tackles a wider variety of issues. Yet artists continue to communicate, not only with us, but also with each other. These 'dialogues' allow us to listen in. - Edward Lucie-Smith John Grande's Dialogues in Diversity provides proof that art results from the interaction of cultural context and the artist's inner necessity-rather than from the commercial necessities of the centralized art markets. The artists' voices presented here are diverse in means and intentions, in geography and reputation; what they have in common is an engagement with both local concerns and global realities, with the process of making art and the possibilities for art in the contemporary world. - Glenn Harper, Editor Sculpture Magazine

"""As the title itself suggests, this book is a reminder of how much art has changed in the past few decades. Contemporary art exists in more places than it ever did previously. It references more cultures. It tackles a wider variety of issues. Yet artists continue to communicate, not only with us, but also with each other. These 'dialogues' allow us to listen in."" - Edward Lucie-Smith ""John Grande's Dialogues in Diversity provides proof that art results from the interaction of cultural context and the artist's inner necessity-rather than from the commercial necessities of the centralized art markets. The artists' voices presented here are diverse in means and intentions, in geography and reputation; what they have in common is an engagement with both local concerns and global realities, with the process of making art and the possibilities for art in the contemporary world."" - Glenn Harper, Editor Sculpture Magazine"

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John K. Grande currently lives and works in Montreal, Quebec. He has published numerous catalogue essays on selected artists and has taught art history at Bishops University, Quebec. His reviews and articles have been published extensively in Artforum, Vice Versa, Sculpture, Art Papers, British Journal of Photography, Espace, Public Art Review, Vie des Arts, Art On Paper, Circa & Canadian Forum. He is the author of Balance: Art and Nature (Black Rose Books in, 2004), Intertwining: Landscape, Technology, Issues, Artists (Black Rose Books, 1998), Jouer avec le feu: Armand Vaillancourt: Sculpteur engage (Lanctot, 2001). Grande is the 1994 winner of Espace-sculpture's Prix Lison Dubreuil for art criticism.

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