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OverviewThis beautiful book is a demonstration of painting's power to evoke emotion and sensation even when on the smallest of scales. British artist Vicken Parsons (b.1957) makes small, intimate paintings on wood panel using thin layers of oil paint. Her subjects are usually partial views of interior spaces or landscapes, some remembered and others imagined. Details of rooms such as corners or doorways or glimpses of fleeting clouds conjure up worlds that are expansive yet claustrophic. Her paintings are quiet and meditative in mood, but also richly evocative, drawing in the viewer through their expressive brushwork, instinctive interplay of colour and light, and unnerving tension between surface and depth. Parsons' work has beguiled and inspired writers from the fields of art, psychoanalysis, and literature to attempt to interpret it, to distill it, for more than twenty years. Their responses to her 'visual poems' are gathered here for the first time, in the artist's only retrospective monograph. All of her most celebrated paintings are reproduced, alongside some of her drawings, until now never shown, and sculptural works - or 'painted objects' as she calls them - that see the artist extend her pictorial investigation of space, reflection, and illusion into three-dimensional form. Studio photographs show some of the work in progress. Contributors include: Michael Archer, David Batchelor, Iwona Blazwick, Darian Leader, Richard Morphet, Anna Moszynska, Charlotte Mullins, Annushka Shani, Rachel Spence, Edmund de Waal. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Charlotte Mullins , Darian Leader , Iwona BlazwickPublisher: Art / Books Imprint: Art / Books Weight: 1.480kg ISBN: 9781908970596ISBN 10: 1908970596 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 29 April 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationCharlotte Mullins is an art critic, writer and broadcaster. She has written widely on women artists including Rachel Whiteread, Cecily Brown, Rachel Lumsden, Jenny Saville, Cathy de Monchaux, Sue Arrowsmith, Susanne Kühn, Susie Hamilton and Paula Rego. She has published numerous books, including Lives of the Great Artists 2008 (a children’s book written as Charlie Ayres), Picturing People 2015 and Rachel Whiteread 2017, and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4’s Front Row and Saturday Review. Darian Leader is Honorary Visiting Professor in Psychoanalysis at Roehampton University. Iwona Blazwick has been Director of the Whitechapel Gallery in London since 2003. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |