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Item specifics
- Condition
- Literary Movement
- Naturalism
- ISBN
- 9780847872282
- Book Title
- Rosamond Purcell : Nature Stands Aside
- Publisher
- Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 11.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Photography
- Topic
- Individual Photographers / Monographs, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Photoessays & Documentaries
- Item Weight
- 50.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 9.8 in
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0847872289
ISBN-13
9780847872282
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4057246254
Product Key Features
Book Title
Rosamond Purcell : Nature Stands Aside
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Individual Photographers / Monographs, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Photoessays & Documentaries
Publication Year
2022
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Photography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
50.9 Oz
Item Length
11.3 in
Item Width
9.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Throughout her more than 50-year practice, Purcell has collaborated with paleontologists, literary scholars, historians, museum curators and erudite magicians, and has drawn inspiration from iconoclastic sources, from a 13-acre junkyard in Maine to natural history museum collections from around the world. A pioneer of fine art color photography and an inspiration to a generation of artists from Mark Dion to Sally Mann, Purcell probes the actions of time and decay as elemental to the natural world and the human condition." --LIVE AUCTIONEERS, "Expect to be overwhelmed, not just by quantity (quality, too) but also variety and, for lack of a better word, theatricality. Purcell's profound, even exacting, respect for her subject matter doesn't keep her from honoring it with bravura treatment. It's hard to think of a photographer with a body of work less given to what she calls "the curse of the predictable in what was then a pre-Photoshop world." Few things are as unpredictable as enchantment, and enchantment is what her work frequently has to offer." -- BOSTON GLOBE "What is an appropriate subject for art?" asks Errol Morris in his foreword to ROSAMOND PURCELL: NATURE STANDS Aside (Rizzoli Electa/Addison Gallery, $65). "I'm partial to death and deliquescence." This morbid domain is Purcell's field of operation, and her particular territory is the natural-history museums where she documents the corpora of the formerly living: birds, eggs, shells, bats, butterflies, monkeys, moles, and lizards. Her high-contrast color photos feature straightforward, portrait-style compositions--as if a group of Javanese wattled lapwings were posing for their high school club photo. There's no need to defamiliarize a mastodon's molar or the corpse of a pig-footed bandicoot. But this directness with its seeming lack of aesthetic inflection is deceptive. By prizing clarity and detail over compositional finesse, Purcell emphasizes the strangeness of her subjects even as her clinical approach lends an ordinariness to the viewer's experience." -- BOOKFORUM, "Expect to be overwhelmed, not just by quantity (quality, too) but also variety and, for lack of a better word, theatricality. Purcell's profound, even exacting, respect for her subject matter doesn't keep her from honoring it with bravura treatment. It's hard to think of a photographer with a body of work less given to what she calls "the curse of the predictable in what was then a pre-Photoshop world." Few things are as unpredictable as enchantment, and enchantment is what her work frequently has to offer." -- BOSTON GLOBE "What is an appropriate subject for art?" asks Errol Morris in his foreword to ROSAMOND PURCELL: NATURE STANDS Aside (Rizzoli Electa/Addison Gallery, $65). "I'm partial to death and deliquescence." This morbid domain is Purcell's field of operation, and her particular territory is the natural-history museums where she documents the corpora of the formerly living: birds, eggs, shells, bats, butterflies, monkeys, moles, and lizards. Her high-contrast color photos feature straightforward, portrait-style compositions--as if a group of Javanese wattled lapwings were posing for their high school club photo. There's no need to defamiliarize a mastodon's molar or the corpse of a pig-footed bandicoot. But this directness with its seeming lack of aesthetic inflection is deceptive. By prizing clarity and detail over compositional finesse, Purcell emphasizes the strangeness of her subjects even as her clinical approach lends an ordinariness to the viewer's experience." -- BOOKFORUM "This monograph by notable local artist Rosamond Purcell serves as the catalogue of a spectacular career retrospective exhibition currently taking up the entire 2nd floor of the Addison Gallery in Andover until Dec. 31st. With several insightful essays as well as an interview with the artist, this book stunningly displays the evolution of this remarkable American artist." -- PORTER SQUARE BOOKS
Dewey Decimal
779.092
Synopsis
The first comprehensive book in more than twenty years of the artist's haunting and textural photographic work, published to accompany a major retrospective at the Addison Gallery of American Art. A definitive monograph to accompany the first museum survey of the renowned photographer and conceptual artist Rosamond Purcell (b. 1942), known for her strangely beautiful, often unsettling photographs of objects from the natural and man-made world. With more than 150 illustrations, the book reflects the breadth of the artist's career from the late 1960s to the present day, and includes photographs, assemblages, collages, and installations that serve to illuminate and explore the shifting boundaries between art and science. From large-format Polaroid prints to objects rescued from obscurity, Purcell's empathetic, evocative, multifaceted work explores the interstices between the unsettling and the sublime, the beautiful and the bizarre, the natural and the manufactured. With thoughtful and insightful texts from an eclectic list of critical voices--including the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Errol Morris and the writer Christopher Irmscher--and featuring an interview between Purcell and fellow contemporary artist Mark Dion, this book rejuvenates the critical approach Purcell's work and brings to light the evolution of a remarkable career., A major monograph published to accompany the first museum survey of the renowned photographer and conceptual artist Rosamond Purcell (b. 1942), known for her strangely beautiful, often unsettling photographs of objects from the natural and man-made
LC Classification Number
TR647
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- e***c (1186)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseI've bought these from this seller multiple times. They're a very good value, come with both a USB-A and USB-C cable, thermal pad, and good, simple packaging without a lot of wasted space. Seller often includes a handwritten thank you note too! Nice touch! :)
- m***1 (458)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseGreat seller.....Quick Ship - Great Packaging - The item was just as photographed and described...Nice Item...glad I found it!
- e***r (221)- Feedback left by buyer.Past yearVerified purchaseItem is of excellent quality and operates very good for the purpose I purchased it. The package where it came was a bag with bubble wrap but the item came in perfect condition due to the manufacturer's box. No bends and broken box. The price is excellent. All came very good. I ordered during Christmas eve and arrived as expect. Vendor included me a nice Christmas post card. Lovely detail. A+++ seller. Honest one.KingSpec SSD 2.5" SATA3 Internal Solid State Drive for PC,Laptop,Mac (#265517082373)