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Lapwing and Fox Conversations Between John Berger and John Christie

Berger John Christie John
Innbundet / 2016 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781526204738
Publisert
2016-09-15
Utgiver
Vendor
OBJECTIF
Høyde
277 mm
Bredde
194 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
288

Forfatter
Berger John
Christie John

Om bidragsyterne

JOHN BERGER is a novelist, essayist, art critic, poet and artist. His many novels include the Booker Prize-winner 'G' (1972), his critically acclaimed trilogy 'Into Their Labour' (1991) and 'From A to X' (2008). His books on art and photography include 'Ways of Seeing' (1972) an influential text and series of films for BBC TV, 'The Success and Failure of Picasso' (1965), 'The Shape of a Pocket' (2001) and 'Bento's Sketchbook' (2011). John Berger lives and works in Paris. JOHN CHRISTIE is an artist, film-maker and publisher, with artwork in public and private collections worldwide. He has collaborated with John Berger on a number of projects including 'Another Way of Telling', a series of four films he directed and photographed for BBC TV (1988). He designed and published 'Pages of the Wound' (1994), John Berger's book of poems, drawings and photographs and co-wrote 'I Send You This Cadmium Red' (2000) their book of correspondence on the subject of colour. John Christie lives and works in Suffolk, East Anglia.

Lapwing and Fox Conversations Between John Berger and John Christie

Berger John Christie John
Innbundet / 2016 / Engelsk
Berger John Christie John
Innbundet / 2016 / Engelsk
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'Stimulating, intimate, heartfelt and beautifully designed, this is a book to be treasured' Geoff Dyer. Complementing their award-winning correspondence on the subject of colour, 'I Send You This Cadmium Red', published in 2000, 'Lapwing & Fox' covers a wide range of ideas surrounding art and artists, drawing and painting, nature and place. As well as the close scrutiny of works by Giacometti, Modigliani and Auerbach, and recollections of working with other artists and writers, the correspondence also explores a whole range of unexpectedly connected subjects, from making drawings of the dead and dying to encounters with barn owls and hares, and discussions of the mythologies surrounding them; from recollections of journeys on the Silk Road and observations of the night sky in Tajikistan to memories of the carved stone churches of Lalibela in Ethiopia and meditations on angels in literature, art and film...
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Lapwing & Fox is a series of stimulating conversations in the form of letters and small books sent between two friends, writer and critic John Berger and artist and film-maker John Christie over a three-year period. The correspondence is reproduced in colour facsimile throughout and covers a vast range of thought-provoking topics.
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Contents: p6. Surrounded by faces - JC. January 2011 p.28. 'You take me for a walk...' - JB. February 2011 p.32. On his way somewhere else - JC. March 2011 p.48. 'Thank you for the chapter...' - JB. April 2011 p.54. A small gesture - JC. May 2011 p.68. 'Yes, I knew Ossip Z. quite well...' - JB. June 2011 p.76 A circular walk - JC. November 2011 p.100. 'There's a short poem by W. B. Yeats...' - JB. December 2011 p.110. Hiding in plain view - JC. February 2012 p.138. 'I like the Canberra print...' - JB. May 2012 p.144. 'The density of certain stars...' - JC with Gael Turnbull p.146. Looking on glass - JC. June 2012 p.162. 'I'm enchanted by the story of Alice...' - JB. August 2012 p.172. At a frontier - JC. September 2012 p.196. Two gourds p.198. 'I love the two gourds...' - JB. November 2012 p.206. Not nature - JC. February 2013 p.226. 'I think of your exhibition...' - JB. March 2013 p.234. Regarding angels - JC. June 2013 p.254. 'When I read you...' - JB. October 2013 p.266. An atlas for the next life - JC. January 2014 p.282. Jardin de Sandra postcard p.283. Map trip drawing - JB p.284. About the conversations - Acknowledgements p.285. References, notes and bibliography p.286. Copyright credits p.287. Photography credits
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'Stimulating, intimate, heartfelt and beautifully designed, this is a book to be treasured' Geoff Dyer. Complementing their award-winning correspondence on the subject of colour, 'I Send You This Cadmium Red', published in 2000, 'Lapwing & Fox' covers a wide range of ideas surrounding art and artists, drawing and painting, nature and place. As well as the close scrutiny of works by Giacometti, Modigliani and Auerbach, and recollections of working with other artists and writers, the correspondence also explores a whole range of unexpectedly connected subjects, from making drawings of the dead and dying to encounters with barn owls and hares, and discussions of the mythologies surrounding them; from recollections of journeys on the Silk Road and observations of the night sky in Tajikistan to memories of the carved stone churches of Lalibela in Ethiopia and meditations on angels in literature, art and film...
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Lapwing & Fox is a series of stimulating conversations in the form of letters and small books sent between two friends, writer and critic John Berger and artist and film-maker John Christie over a three-year period. The correspondence is reproduced in colour facsimile throughout and covers a vast range of thought-provoking topics.
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Contents: p6. Surrounded by faces - JC. January 2011 p.28. 'You take me for a walk...' - JB. February 2011 p.32. On his way somewhere else - JC. March 2011 p.48. 'Thank you for the chapter...' - JB. April 2011 p.54. A small gesture - JC. May 2011 p.68. 'Yes, I knew Ossip Z. quite well...' - JB. June 2011 p.76 A circular walk - JC. November 2011 p.100. 'There's a short poem by W. B. Yeats...' - JB. December 2011 p.110. Hiding in plain view - JC. February 2012 p.138. 'I like the Canberra print...' - JB. May 2012 p.144. 'The density of certain stars...' - JC with Gael Turnbull p.146. Looking on glass - JC. June 2012 p.162. 'I'm enchanted by the story of Alice...' - JB. August 2012 p.172. At a frontier - JC. September 2012 p.196. Two gourds p.198. 'I love the two gourds...' - JB. November 2012 p.206. Not nature - JC. February 2013 p.226. 'I think of your exhibition...' - JB. March 2013 p.234. Regarding angels - JC. June 2013 p.254. 'When I read you...' - JB. October 2013 p.266. An atlas for the next life - JC. January 2014 p.282. Jardin de Sandra postcard p.283. Map trip drawing - JB p.284. About the conversations - Acknowledgements p.285. References, notes and bibliography p.286. Copyright credits p.287. Photography credits
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781526204738
Publisert
2016-09-15
Utgiver
Vendor
OBJECTIF
Høyde
277 mm
Bredde
194 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
288

Forfatter
Berger John
Christie John

Om bidragsyterne

JOHN BERGER is a novelist, essayist, art critic, poet and artist. His many novels include the Booker Prize-winner 'G' (1972), his critically acclaimed trilogy 'Into Their Labour' (1991) and 'From A to X' (2008). His books on art and photography include 'Ways of Seeing' (1972) an influential text and series of films for BBC TV, 'The Success and Failure of Picasso' (1965), 'The Shape of a Pocket' (2001) and 'Bento's Sketchbook' (2011). John Berger lives and works in Paris. JOHN CHRISTIE is an artist, film-maker and publisher, with artwork in public and private collections worldwide. He has collaborated with John Berger on a number of projects including 'Another Way of Telling', a series of four films he directed and photographed for BBC TV (1988). He designed and published 'Pages of the Wound' (1994), John Berger's book of poems, drawings and photographs and co-wrote 'I Send You This Cadmium Red' (2000) their book of correspondence on the subject of colour. John Christie lives and works in Suffolk, East Anglia.

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