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Review North Light Books / Secrets of Rusty Things: Transforming Found Objects into Art

Secrets of Rusty Things: Transforming Found Objects into Art (North Light Books)

Authors

Michael de Meng

Publication date: 2007-07-27
Dewey code: 745.5
RRP: ~~£14.99~~
Price: £5.75

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Review Taschen GmbH / Art Nouveau: Utopia - Reconciling the Irreconcilable (Taschen's 25th Anniversary Special Editions Series)

Art Nouveau: Utopia - Reconciling the Irreconcilable (Taschen's 25th Anniversary Special Editions Series) (Taschen GmbH)

Authors

Klaus-Jurgen Sembach

Edition: Taschen 25th anniversary ed
Publication date: 2007-06-01
Dewey code: 709.0349
RRP: ~~£7.99~~
Price: £4.38

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Titian (Phaidon Press Ltd)

Authors

Peter Humfrey

Publication date: 2007-10-01
Dewey code: 709
RRP: ~~£24.95~~
Price: £15.67

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Review Phaidon Press Ltd / Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light

Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light (Phaidon Press Ltd)

Authors

Richard Pare

Creator: Tom Heneghan
Publication date: 2000-10
Dewey code: 720
RRP: ~~£12.95~~
Price: £8.48

Review Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light / Phaidon Press Ltd:

The Colours of Light is a beautiful, compact, dense little book that showcases English photographer Richard Pare's stunning takes on the respected, influential Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Pare photographed Ando's work over a 10-year period and, with remarkable consistency, has realised the intricacies of Ando's constructed confrontations between architecture and nature. Pare translates this dialogue with great skill in his photographs and easily manages to convey (convert?) the conversations about space, the absence/presence dialectic, that all buildings declaim. Pare, in his overview essay at the end of the book, says: "Space itself is immovable. It has no movement, though all movement is in space. All space is actually static, and potentially dynamic. We conceive space statically, but we experience it dynamically. The space that is rendered in a photograph is a static space of potential movement". His photographs bear out, but overcome, this tension. Tom Heneghan's introduction wonders if Pare's career as a "photographer of architecture rather than an architectural photographer" have enabled him to so keenly grasp the nature of Ando's work. [+]

Whatever the reason this is a remarkable collection. -Mark Thwaite.

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Review Thames & Hudson Ltd / Wall: Andy Goldsworthy

Wall: Andy Goldsworthy (Thames & Hudson Ltd)

Authors

Andy Goldsworthy

Creator: Jerry L. Thompson
Publication date: 2000-05-15
Dewey code: 709
RRP: ~~£22.50~~
Price: £14.63

Review Wall: Andy Goldsworthy / Thames & Hudson Ltd:

For those familiar with Stone and Wood, Wall will come as a welcome and developed exploration of the tension between the two media. Goldsworthy first incorporated dry stone walls into his sculpture in 1989, when he made his first sheep fold using techniques learnt as a seasonal farm labourer. In 1995, he was invited by the Storm King Arts Center, 500 acres of splendid museum space dedicated to the interaction of art and nature north of Manhattan, to create a piece, and the result, British sensibility on an American canvas, was Wall. Drawing on a previous work, Wall that Went for a Walk, in Grizedale forest, Cumbria, Goldsworthy traced an existent line from a derelict wall amongst trees, snaking from a track to water, and as an afterthought, out again. The original wall had been displaced by trees whose trunks Goldsworthy incorporated into the course and motion of his empathetic wall, and which would, in time, once again reclaim the ground from the wall. Wood, stone, wood, stone, with the potential for wood again: you can see why this material dynamic appealed to Goldsworthy. This permanent sculpture, an organic evolution from the artist's better known ephemeral projects with fragile materials such as leaves, grass and snow, is captured with consummate sensitivity by the lens of Jerry L. Thompson, reflecting the ephemeral, ever-changing aspect of the most solid structure reliant upon seasonal light and weather changes. Gently augmented by notebook annotation and reflection from Goldsworthy, alongside complementary images from past works (and the inclusion of potted biographies of the wallers themselves, very much integral to the project's achievement), as well as an appreciative essay by art critic Kenneth Baker, and the result is an airily attractive record, that is, as always, an essential strand of the artistic representation. Incorporating history, tradition and acutely responsive to the lay of the land, Andy Goldsworthy, like fellow British artist Richard Long, once again proves himself a landscape artist for our time. [+]

-David Vincent.

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