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Jim Dine
Birds
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The book reveals how ordinary creatures can embody mythology, serve as court jesters or act as mysterious messengers from hidden realms, capturing the intimate dialogue between the artist and nature.
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Ideal for readers drawn to arts and culture, especially those interested in the intersection of personal memory, symbolism and artistic expression through photography.
A childhood encounter with a crow at a zoo led to a lifetime fascination with avian life for the American artist Jim Dine. This encounter with the bird was perceived by the young Dine with a mixture of fear, fascination and a deeper understanding of his unconscious world, and from it grew a mythic personal symbolism, which he explores in Birds, a series of remarkable black-and-white photographs.
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"Hi, my name is Jimmy," a crow said to the boy, Jim Dine, when his parents took him to the zoo. The two Jimmys got connected by a secret link. "Lots of things scared me when I was a little boy but this scared me and it also...I understood it." The encounter with the bird was perceived by the boy as a mixture of fear, fascination and a deeper understanding of his unconscious world.
The artist later transformed his remembrance into a fascinating series of black-and-white photos. Are they symbolic, profound, mystic or just pictures of beloved animals? An everyday unspectacular bird might appear to the beholder as a character of mythology, as a jester at the medieval court, as a strange messenger of a world behind the scenes. Jim Dine speaks to the birds, and the bird answers, because they are on intimate terms.
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ISBN: 9783882432404
Publisher: Steidl Publishers
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 19 February 2014
Country: Germany
Imprint: Steidl Verlag
Illustration: 36 Halftones, duotone
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 295.0mm
Height: 315.0mm
Weight: 1330g
Pages: 88
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About the Author
Jim Dine was born in Cincinnati Ohio in 1935. He has been a painter, sculptor and printmaker all his life. He started making these photographs in 1995.
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