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Strange Bodies: A Story of Loss and Desire

English

By (author): Tom de Freston

a book full of love that makes you see what really matters, both in art and life. Clever, tender, completely compelling - Ella Risbridger In 2020, artist Tom de Freston and his novelist wife Kiran Millwood Hargrave discovered they were expecting twins. But Kiran miscarried, and thus began a long journey to parenthood that saw the loss of six more pregnancies. De Freston began exploring his experience of the losses in his artwork, searching for a way to make sense of his grief and of his wife's. He finds representations of his feelings towards Kiran in Ovid's myth of Orpheus, who, in turning back to gaze upon Eurydice, loses her to the Underworld; a story which captures the longing for closeness within a couple, and the intense pain in the distance between them. His search for understanding leads him to artists and artworks from Titian and Francis Bacon to Braca Ettinger and Gerhard Richter. And as the miscarriages mounted and de Freston became ever more aware of the precarious bodily experience that is pregnancy, he excavates the erotic charge of the male gaze, its yearning for connection, and the desires and boundaries that exist between lovers, and between painter and painting. Addressed directly to De Freston's wife Kiran, Strange Bodies is an intimate, authentic, and powerfully moving account of a loving relationship that pulses with wonder and insight. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 368g
  • Dimensions: 144 x 224mm
  • Publication Date: 02 May 2024
  • Publisher: Granta Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781783789894

About Tom de Freston

Tom de Freston is a visual artist based in Oxford and the author of Wreck: A Story of Art and Survival (Granta 2021). Among various fellowships and residencies he has held a Leverhulme residency at Cambridge University a Levy Plumb Residency at Christ's College and the inaugural Creative Fellowship at Birmingham University. His work is regularly exhibited and is represented in numerous public and private collections. With his wife the writer Kiran Millwood Hargrave he is the co-creator of Orpheus and Eurydice and Julia and the Shark winner of the Waterstones Children's Gift of the Year.

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