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Jeanette Winterson: LAND

An exploration of what it means to be human in remote places across the British Isles
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Jeanette Winterson: LAND documents the intersection of art and landscape through Antony Gormley's installation commissioned by the Landmark Trust for its 50th anniversary. Jeanette Winterson and photographer Clare Richardson journey to five remote British sites to engage with Gormley's life-size cast iron sculptures, offering meditative reflections and vivid photography of the sculptures' dramatic coastal settings.
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary art, British landscapes, sculpture, and poetic essays that explore the relationship between environment and creative expression.

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In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Landmark Trust commissioned an installation from Antony Gormley. This book records its places and explores their meanings. It is accompanied by photographs of the varied seascapes and waterways - and weather conditions - that the sculptures inhabit.

An exploration of what it means to be human in remote places across the British Isles, by Antony Gormley, Jeanette Winterson and Clare Richardson.

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In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Landmark Trust commissioned an installation from Antony Gormley. LAND was the result: this book records its places and explores their meanings.

Author Jeanette Winterson and photographer Clare Richardson travelled to five Landmark sites in remote parts of the British Isles: Saddell Bay, Mull of Kintyre; South West Point, Lundy; Clavell Tower, Kimmeridge Bay; Martello Tower, Aldeburgh and Lengthsman's Cottage, Lowsonford to see Gormley's life-size cast iron sculptures. Winterson has written a meditation in response to the works and landscapes she has encountered.

This celebratory text is accompanied by Richardson's photographs of the varied seascapes and waterways β€” and weather conditions β€” that the sculptures inhabit.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781526201850

Publisher: Landmark Trust

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 07 July 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Landmark Trust

Illustration: Illustrated in colour throughout

Contributors:

  • Photographs by Clare Richardson
  • Edited by Rosalind Horne

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 260g

Pages: 120

About the Author

Antony Gormley is one of the UK's most distinguished contemporary artists. He won the Turner Prize in 1994 and has been a member of the Royal Academy since 2003. Gormley was made an Officer of the British Empire in 1997 and knighted in 2014. Novelist Jeannette Winterson is a regular contributor of reviews and articles to many newspapers and journals and has a regular column published in The Guardian. Clare Richardson has exhibited at White Cube, Ffotogallery Cardiff, the Victoria and Albert Museum and as part of the John Kobal Photographic Prize at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

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