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Transformations
The Art of Sonia Payes
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This book will appeal to readers interested in contemporary art, photography, environmental themes, and cultural critique. Ideal for those who appreciate nuanced artistic expression and the dialogue between humanity and nature.
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Author Ashley Crawford traces the development of Payes's career in which, in opposition to the 'hyper-styled, highly colour-saturated' photography of the digital age, she has quietly created a more personalised, monochromatic and moody language. Crawford describes it as 'discourse in chiaroscuro' in which her camera 'somehow capsizes our normal expectations of how the natural world should appear'.
Landscape and the body, and the melding of the two, are her subjects - but they are formulated in ways that belie rational explanation. Since her artist-in-residency in China in 2012 where she witnessed natural cornfields quarried for the cement needed for massive urban re-development, Payes' pre-occupation has been 'regeneration' of the environment for future inhabitants.
Hence her computer animation Corn and Quarries with its regenerated fields of all-seeing human faces with their vision focused North, South, East and West, intent on this planet's survival.
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ISBN: 9780500500866
Publisher: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 01 August 2016
Country: Australia
Imprint: THA Art
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 26.0mm
Width: 308.0mm
Height: 319.0mm
Weight: 2637g
Pages: 208
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About the Author
Ashley Crawford has published books on Howard Arkley and Philip Hunter, edited magazines such as Tension and World Art and was the editor of Thames & Hudson's New Art series from 2002.
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