| John Stezaker: Masks Contributor(s): Mac Giolla Leith, Caoimhin (Text by (Art, Photo Books)) |
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ISBN: 1905464118 ISBN-13: 9781905464111 Publisher: Ridinghouse OUR PRICE: $35.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - Monographs - Art | Conceptual - Art | Mixed Media |
| Dewey: 778.9 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 8.3" W x 10.6" (0.70 lbs) 56 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Concentrating specifically on the portrait, John Stezaker's 'Masks' series reflects the artist's ongoing interest with the hidden face. Stezaker's long-term fascination with the image is translated into alterations, deletions, visual concordances and juxtapositions of disparate sources, intuitively creating new images and relationships. Notions of the interior and exterior and blindness are key to Stezaker's 'Masks' series. Found postcard images obscure and replace the subject's physiognomy - leaving a 'surround' of hair, neck and clothes - and cavernous landscapes take the place of facial features to form new characters and meanings. Accompanying over 60 full-colour illustrations, a text from Caoimh n Mac Giolla L ith discusses the imagined narrative possibilities of the artist's superimposed images and collages. |