'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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Dimensions: 194 x 277mm
Publication Date: 15 Sep 2016
Publisher: OBJECTIF
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781526204738
About John BergerJohn Christie
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.