This catalogue is printed on the occasion of the exhibition Jason Brooks: The subject is not the subject 9 February – 10 March 2018. Like a maelstrom, this exhibition transports us into the inner sanctum of Jason Brooks. For this publication, the novelist and journalist Will Self visited the artist in Gloucestershire. The result of their meeting is the essay ‘The Object is not Objective’.
Softback: 88 pages
Language: English
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Jason Brooks: Perpetual Orgy is the first overview of the career of a singular and versatile artist. Heavily illustrated with colour images from Jason’s rich and varied oeuvre, Perpetual Orgy offers a poetic and insightful reading of his practice from novelist, curator and critic, Michael Bracewell. Specially commissioned for this title, Bracewell has written a series of essays in response to an extended conversation with the artist and an engagement with his work spanning many years.
Hardcover: 168 pages
Publisher: Black Dog Publishing (1 Jun. 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1910433551
ISBN-13: 978-1910433553
Product Dimensions: 27.2 x 2.3 x 32.8 cm
The selection of works reflects the growing importance of post-conceptual, mostly figurative painting, which now holds an extraordinary position on the British art scene. One of its key moments is the questioning of the possibilities, meaning and method of viewing reality. The exhibition has been conceived specifically for the exhibition spaces of Galerie Rudolfinum. In the work of selected artists in the first part of the exhibition are unmistakable references to photographic realism. The second part of the exhibition includes works by artists programmatically-following academic painting of the 19th century, and references to classical painting firmly tied to the Renaissance heritage.
Hardcover: 128 pages
Publisher: Rudolfinum Museum, Prague (2012)
Language: Czech/English
Product Dimensions: 27.1 x 3.0 x 20.1 cm
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A national pantheon of the greatest names in British history and culture, the Collection of the National Portrait Gallery contains more than 11,000 paintings, sculptures and works on paper and over a quarter of a million photographs. There are kings and queens, courtiers and courtesans, politicians and poets, soldiers and scientists, artists and writers, philosophers and film stars – individuals from every sphere.
Publication Date: 27 October 2014
ISBN: 978 1 85514 485 9
Format: 270 x 230mm
Word Count: 60,000
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The Portrait Now presents over ninety of the best contemporary portraits from across the world, including the most recent work of internationally acclaimed artists. Focusing on works from the early years of the new millennium, this book highlights the continuing appeal of representing the human face.
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press (15 Mar. 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300115245
ISBN-13: 978-0300115246
Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 1.5 x 27.7 cm
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‘I am a Camera’ features the work of an international group of leading artists, selected by Charles Saatchi and to be included in a series of exhibitions at The Saatchi Gallery, London. Some of the artists are world renowned, others are new and completely unseen. They include Richard Billingham, Jason Brooks, Kristin Calabrese, Jessica Craig-Martin, Thomas Demand, Rineke Dijkstra, Tierney Gearon, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Craigie Horsfield, Esko Männikkö, Cindy Sherman, Hannah Starkey and Andy Warhol.
Paperback: 440 pages
Publisher: Booth-Clibborn Editions; 01 edition (18 Jan. 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1861542054
ISBN-13: 978-1861542052
Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 3.2 x 27.9 cm
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This book maps out some of the new territory currently being explored. It features work by over 30 artists using diverse working processes, and who share similar preoccupations and concerns. Art, whether it be sculpture, photography or painting has started to look like it is having more fun, as this book makes evident. Few of the artists in this book have been exhibited beyond “alternative” artist-run warehouses, yet their work has quickly asserted itself as vibrant and important.
Hardcover: 120 pages
Publisher: The Saatchi Gallery (1998)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 0-9527-453-8-0
Product Dimensions: 31 x 22.5
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