An Essential Disorientation - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8392296400 ISBN 13: 9788392296409

Publisher: Beam Editions, 2015

Synopsis

About the Book
Commissioned by the Polish Museum of Contemporary Sacred Art and published by SARP this book is an investigation into sacredness and its relation to contemporary art. In it New guides his thoughts through a series of cartographic thoughts that map his sense of Sacredness in relation to contemporary art and all our lives. In the book Newling specifically reflects on the Liminal and the Sacred, Place and Sacredness, Value and Sacredness, Engines of Sacredness, and Nature, Sacredness and Us.

Newling writes ... At a time when many ideologies have all but blown themselves out; when meaning seems to have become meaningless in a strangely nihilistic void; when, in our sophistication, we find as our ancestors did that we are fearful of the unpredictability of nature; when knowledge as causality seems to become increasingly predetermined; it seems appropriate to review the relationship we have with nature as a sacred process…

A hardback book with dust jacket and beautiful uncoated papers. Includes illustrated section. 158 pages.

About the Author
John Newling was born in Birmingham in 1952 and has an acclaimed international reputation creating projects and installing works in the UK and many other countries. Nottingham-based, John Newling is a pioneer of public art with a social purpose. His works explore the natural world and the social and economic systems of society – such as money or religion. To this end Newling has innovated the possibilities and benefits for art in a renewed social and conceptual framework. This has generated many works over the following decades both gallery based and site specific. Newlings recent projects include major exhibitions specific projects in the UK, USA and Europe.

Edition details

• Publisher: Beam Editions
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8392296400
• ISBN 13: 9788392296409
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 158
• Editor: Newling