Offers the more experimental and less familiar work of contemporary artists, opening up the creative process to explore the conceptual, visual and practical issues with which they engage. This book charts the production of Stephen Chambers' experimental project to create an immense print covering one wall of the Royal Academy's stately galleries.
This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to fiction in the English-speaking world during the period from 1970 to the present day. During this period, a sea change has transformed fiction in English, and this collection introduces the key developments as well as the works of some of the most important writers today.
For Rod Mengham sculpture and painting exist in the world the way poems do. He invokes the Polish sculptor Katarzyna Kobro, who believes that sculpture must be understood as part of the world around it. In Chance of a Storm, poetry is language that comes trailing bits of other forms of speech and writing.
The writing of the 1930s is the record of a time dominated by a sense of being caught between different times and places, between two world wars between generations, between modernism and realism, between middle class and working class, between local and national cultures and between national and international politics.
Provides students and readers with an introduction to key authors and novels since 1990 through a collection of the perspectives on British fiction. This book offers comprehensive coverage of a range of selected contemporary authors, drawing together both established and emerging literary voices reflecting the scope of the British writing.
The British artist Marc Quinn, born in 1964, came to the attention of the international art scene in 1991 with "Self, " a cast of his own head realized in eight pints of his own frozen blood, exhibited in a specially designed refrigeration unit. Since 1999, he has been creating sculptures in classic white marble of subjects who lack one or more limbs, the best known is his 2005 Trafalgar Square installation, "Alison Lapper Pregnant." In addres...