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These books celebrate the connection between life and art, making them essential for enthusiasts of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"jim-dine-a-beautiful-day-by-jim-dine-9783958298910","title":"Jim Dine: A Beautiful Day","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJim Dine's poems are the voices between his paintings, the questions between his drawings, the whispers and shouts between his sculptures: an unceasing, probing flow that augments and energises his visual work. Dine writes through a process of collage, arranging and re-arranging fragments as they come to him, noting them on scraps of paper, on the studio wall, even (a favourite medium) on the sick bags of aeroplanes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Beautiful Day\u003c\/em\u003e presents 17 poems; some are recent pieces written during the intensity of corona quarantine, others are older creations he has now rediscovered and re-shaped, as a sculptor returns to a work after many years with a fresh eye and hand. As always, Dine's poetry is densely autobiographical and grapples with the polarities of experience: with delight and melancholy, with criticism and celebration, with nostalgia (\"Childhood mood \/ The soul \/ complete and elegant \/ Constructed of wishes \/ And clouds\"), rage (\"I ran into him at the airport, \/ 'I hope you die a miserable death \/ You fat fascist fuck'\"), and, inevitably, the passing of time: \"The magic falls, \/ Years go by, \/ Hitting the window \/ They get used up.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424428769516,"sku":"9783958298910","price":72.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783958298910.jpg?v=1774768494"},{"product_id":"jim-dine-viral-interest-by-jim-dine-9783958298682","title":"Jim Dine: Viral Interest","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike most of us, Jim Dine went into self-isolation in March 2020 following the Covid-19 lockdown. Unlike most of us, he turned these three months into a crucible of creativity and has now recorded his experiences in book form. Dine quickly settled into a new daily rhythm: his studio in Montrouge became a living as well as a working space—\"I spend my days in silence, painting and building\"—which he would leave on his bike every afternoon for another space in Montparnasse, to write poems—\"The intense silence of the street and my concentration sculpted the words in a direct way\"—and to garden, tending to the plants that he arranges like a colour palette, the roses and oleander, the succulents, tomatoes and corn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlongside Dine's photos, from blurred self-portraits and cropped studio still lifes to foliage and clouds skimming the sky, are text fragments he took from the daily newspapers: \"we are racing against trigger \/ once there was light \/ sick and dying African Americans \/ there is hope.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe idea that Dine document this time in photos and appropriated text came unexpectedly from a conversation with his printer and publisher, Gerhard Steidl; \u003ci\u003eViral Interest\u003c\/i\u003e is as much about their exchange as it is a document of confinement: haphazard and lyrical, compellingly contradictory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424429097196,"sku":"9783958298682","price":72.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783958298682.jpg?v=1774768494"},{"product_id":"jim-dine-electrolyte-in-blue-by-jim-dine-9783958297524","title":"Jim Dine: Electrolyte in Blue","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Jim Dine's bluntly honest words, \u003cem\u003eElectrolyte in Blue\u003c\/em\u003e is a \"long hate poem\" about \"the evil in our now small world and those who unleashed it,\" exploring themes of anti-Semitism, racism, climate change, as well as the world leaders he condemns, strong among them Donald Trump.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDine's fury and disappointment are clear, yet his vision is not merely bleak. He lays his words over luminous etchings, aquatints and lithographs of botanical themes in buoyant colour. Luscious foliage, flowers, fruit, and vegetables celebrate the natural world and offer solace against the social, political, and environmental concerns which Dine voices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is based upon the original \u003cem\u003eElectrolyte in Blue\u003c\/em\u003e, a unique book object in an edition of one, typeset and printed by hand by Ruth Lingen, with whom Dine has collaborated for decades. All in all, \u003cem\u003eElectrolyte in Blue\u003c\/em\u003e is a macabre and glorious document, dark and light, full of compelling contradictions, and with Dine's \"dilemma of trying to stay human and alive under the present circumstances\" at its centre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis book is about me being 85 years old and doing exactly what I want to do.\u003c\/i\u003e - Jim Dine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47431383613676,"sku":"9783958297524","price":165.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783958297524.jpg?v=1774557978"},{"product_id":"jim-dine-last-years-forgotten-harvest-by-jim-dine-9783969993125","title":"Jim Dine: Last Year’s Forgotten Harvest","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRenowned for his depictions of self, which early in his career were often purely symbolic—most famously in the form of a bathrobe or a set of tools—Jim Dine reveals in \u003cem\u003eLast Year's Forgotten Harvest\u003c\/em\u003e another portrait of sorts, providing the viewer both with insight into his deep commitment to drawing and to the individuals in his orbit who have helped shape him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePresenting nearly seven decades of drawing, from 1957 to the present, \u003cem\u003eLast Year's Forgotten Harvest\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates the deep fusion between Dine's practice and those who have long been part of his world. In the artist's words: \"Besides being a diary, having the quality of a diary, the exhibition is essentially about drawing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePresent here, then, are members of Dine's family. His wife, photographer Diana Michener, appears in multiple, heavily worked portraits. Images of close friends and fellow creatives move throughout the publication, including drawings of artist Susan Rothenberg, printer Aldo Crommelynck, poet Robert Creeley, and printer and publisher Gerhard Steidl, with whom he created this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe blemishes, wrinkles, and even stains that imprint themselves upon skin similarly appear upon the surfaces of Dine's drawings as he encounters and grapples with his subjects over time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eProviding a poignant reflection upon a career characterised by digesting the world through making, Dine concludes: \"This is what I'm left with. 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Often written in the studio itself (even on its walls), his poems come into being through the same intense self-exploration and re-shaping that defines all his art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDine has published numerous volumes of his poems, compositions described by Tom Raworth as \"direct as brushstrokes, as casual as conversation, as passionate as loss,\" yet nowhere is the life of his poetry—its verve and colour—as compelling as in Dine's recitals of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJim Dine Reading (plus one song)\u003c\/em\u003e presents ten such vital recordings, originally recorded as part of Dine's groundbreaking \u003cem\u003eHot Dream (52 Books)\u003c\/em\u003e (2008), for which he made a book a week for a year. 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Here his focus lies on three self-reflective series from the past three years, each in a different medium.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the self-portraits of \u003cem\u003eDrawing the Minutes\u003c\/em\u003e, Dine less draws with pencil on paper than carves into it, feverishly erasing and redrawing to create a shifting typography of self and a study on the effects of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe densely painted self-portraits of \u003cem\u003eMe\u003c\/em\u003e, comprising oils mixed with sawdust and sand, deepen Dine's acts of looking out and in, each layer of pigment a layer of self-knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, we witness the monumental bronze sculptures of \u003cem\u003eThree Ships\u003c\/em\u003e, whose title references the ships that carried the relics of the Three Wise Men on their final journey. 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