Shaw Raqib James Hall (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to. Softcover. Pp. 192. First Edition. In very good condition. Light shelf-wear to the cover with minor scuffs and marks, such a mark on the inside of the dust-jacket where a sticker has been removed. Pages themselves are clean, crisp and bright. Text by James Hall and Andrea Schlieker. Edited by Honey Luard. Designed by Stefi Orazi Studio. 88 colour and 4 black and white illustrations. Published to mark the exhibitions held at White Cube Bermondsey, September 2016 and at Glyndebourne, August 2016. Drawing on a wide range of sources including art history, mythology, poetry, theatre, religion, science and natural history, Raqib Shaws paintings reflect the artists unique vision. In paintings, works on paper and sculpture, Shaws approach is transgressive, an artistic journey explored through highly personal, opulent and fantastical imagery, offering a cultural hybridity that combines iconography from both East and West. Rendering their classical architecture with exacting detail, Shaw transforms the religious scenes of the originals by bringing in elements of his Peckham studio in south London, the landscape of his childhood home in Kashmir, Hindu iconography and Japanese architecture. Contributors: James Hall, is a writer and author of The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History (Thames & Hudson, 2014). Andrea Schlieker, formerly Director of Commissions and Special Projects at White Cube, is Director of Exhibitions and Displays at Tate Britain, London.