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| Revealed Terrain: Landscape in Contemporary Artists Books -Now until Jul 20 Located in the Goodman Gallery (Artist\'s Books) |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 31 |
| Time: | All Day Event |
| Location: | The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art |
| Address: | 1934 Poplar Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee - 38104 |
| Phone: | (901) 544-6225 Contact: Stacy Wright |
| Website: | www.brooksmuseum.org/privateevents |
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 Revealed Terrain: Landscape in Contemporary Artists BooksEnd: Jul 20 Located in the Goodman Gallery (Artist's Books)Guest curated by Cynthia Nourse Thompson There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.—Josephine Hart (1942–2011). Irish-born British Author.The landscape of book arts and design is ever expanding in the areas of technology and information, language and voice, and audience and arena. A respect for the historical lineage and an understanding of both disciplines serves as the foundation for this panoramic survey of artists books. The books presented challenge the common assumption of what defines a book. Revealed Terrain: Landscape in Contemporary Artists Books visually illustrates trans-disciplinary thought regarding such elements as structure and content, pure typography, letterpress printing, bookbinding, three-dimensional design, and, the multiple as an experimental map for exploration. This exhibition highlights the diverse manner in which various contemporary artists utilize the discipline of book arts to illustrate the landscape, although their realizations are defined by varying conceptual approaches. Included are more apparent interpretations of landscape such as Julie Chen’s Invented Landscape and Vija Celmin’s The View. In contrast are books which convey displacement and loss as in Macy Chadwick’s The Topography of Home, and Robert Mapplethorpe’s A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud; or books that illustrate the body as terrain exemplified by Sarah Bryant’s Point of View. The artists books presented in Revealed Terrain take the viewer, page by page, on a visual journey through the personal imagination of each artist. |
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