Robert Adams: The Plains, from Memory

Name: Robert Adams: The Plains, from Memory
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9783969990179
Price: 85.0 NZD
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By Joshua Chuang and Robert Adams

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Robert Adams: The Plains, from Memory captures a poignant creative journey during the spring of 2020, as Adams found inspiration in a small plank of wood discovered in his garage. From scrap wood and his forebears' hand tools grew 21 block-printed landscapes, evoking a remembered stillness and grandeur of the plains. This collection is a quiet affirmation of hope and connection to nature through art.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in arts and culture, fine art photography, and those drawn to reflective, meditative landscapes and creative processes during challenging times.

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In the spring of 2020, as he watched his country tested, Robert Adams discovered in his garage a small plank of wood that contained a landscape. This led to the creation, during a difficult time, of an unexpected series of works that drew upon memories of a stillness and a grandeur he had forgotten about.

Over the next few months, using scrap wood from an old bookcase, hand tools that once belonged to his father and grandfather, and block printing ink, Adams affirmed his own basis for hope in the 21 scenes that appear in this book.

I came out on this plain... First I thought it was like the sea ... then I thought it was like singing... - Agnes Martin

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Boston Globe praises the photographs as "marvels of simplicity, evocation, and, yes, quietude," highlighting the contemplative power of Adams's work.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783969990179

Publisher: Steidl Publishers

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 16 June 2022

Country: Germany

Imprint: Steidl Verlag

Illustration: 22 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 265.0mm

Height: 280.0mm

Weight: 620g

Pages: 56

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Arts & Culture Joshua Chuang Non-Fiction Robert Adams

About the Author

Robert Adams was born in 1937 in Orange, New Jersey. After earning a PhD in English literature and teaching the subject for several years at Colorado College, he became a photographer in the mid-1960s. Adams has published more than 40 books of photographs, with the changing landscape of the American West as his primary subject; his books with Steidl include Gone? (2009), The Place We Live (2013) and From the Missouri West (2018). Adams lives and works with his wife in northwest Oregon.

Joshua Chuang is a curator, writer and editor who currently serves as Associate Director of Art, Prints and Photographs and Senior Curator of Photography at The New York Public Library.