{"product_id":"diana-michener-twenty-eight-figure-studies-by-diana-michener-9783869308968","title":"Diana Michener: Twenty Eight Figure Studies","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow to represent sex as a place of ecstasy rather than pornography? How to transcend the unavoidable physicality of the sexual act, sometimes tender, sometimes violent, to reach what Diana Michener calls \"the place of communion ... the unknown, the cosmic\"?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDiana Michener: Twenty Eight Figure Studies\u003c\/em\u003e explores these themes with a unique artistic approach. Michener initially considered depicting live models for this book but ultimately decided to photograph stills from pornographic films. She transforms the hyperreality of the sex industry, its tarnished coloured gloss, into something more ambiguous, timeless, and expressive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figurative forms of sex are often (just) recognisable in Michener's black-and-white pictures: a kiss, breasts, entangled limbs; but just as often, they are not. Bodies are simplified and blurred, seeping into abstraction and darkness, hinting at yet never embracing explicitness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn images both graphic and impressionistic, Michener's self-declared goal steadfastly remains \"to transform into the visual what is emotional and mental.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596214845676,"sku":"9783869308968","price":60.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783869308968-diana-michener-twenty-eight-figure-studies.jpg?v=1777918239","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/diana-michener-twenty-eight-figure-studies-by-diana-michener-9783869308968","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}