{"product_id":"antony-gormley-bilingual-edition-9788857254029","title":"Antony Gormley (Bilingual edition)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe book explores the relationship between the human body and the built environment through sculptures and drawings by Antony Gormley.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished on the occasion of Antony Gormley's solo exhibition at Galleria Continua in Beijing, \u003cem\u003eBody Buildings\u003c\/em\u003e interrogates our species' relationship to the built environment, an increasingly high-rise world we rarely escape. In a significant group of recent sculptures and drawings, Gormley uses clay and iron, two ubiquitous materials of the built world, \"to think and feel the body in this condition\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis publication illustrates the work in the exhibition through extensive installation photography, guiding readers from Gormley's new installation \u003cem\u003eResting Place II\u003c\/em\u003e (2024) to a series of sculptures investigating the relation of body to building and finally to a group of drawings published here for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt also features new scholarship from Hou Hanru and Stephen Greenblatt, who trace the development of this new body of work as well as Gormley's 30-year engagement with China and the surrounding region in significant works such as \u003cem\u003eAsian Field\u003c\/em\u003e (2003), \u003cem\u003eEvent Horizon\u003c\/em\u003e (2007) and \u003cem\u003eHost\u003c\/em\u003e (2016).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA photo essay by the artist also tracks his ongoing dialogue with the region through a series of never-before-seen archival photographs of his first research trip to China in 1995, which took him from the Forbidden City in Beijing to the Terracotta Army in Xi'an.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48147216367852,"sku":"9788857254029","price":100.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9788857254029-antony-gormley-bilingual-edition.jpg?v=1786445990","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/antony-gormley-bilingual-edition-9788857254029","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}