{"product_id":"jim-dine-9783958296107","title":"Jim Dine","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book presents for the first time \u003cem\u003eJim Dine's Secret Drawings\u003c\/em\u003e, a series of 45 majestic, dynamic, and dense drawings made between 2012 and 2018 in his studios in Walla Walla, Washington, and Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRanging in size from 50 × 70 to 104 × 152 cm, these works are the product of Dine's intense, restless processes of application, erasure, and most importantly, re-working. He uses materials as diverse as charcoal, China ink, pastel, fixative, oil enamel, and acrylic paints, as well as collage. The textures of the papers—\"what I had on the floor and lying around\"—vary greatly, as do Dine's tools, from sticks, brushes, knives, and rotary grinders to the artist's bare hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe resulting drawings are raw, explosive, and caught in the process of becoming, abstract yet with hints of familiar forms, perhaps a rectangle, oval, a slice, or an aperture. For Dine himself, these drawings ultimately hold a deeper, more personal secrecy: \"84 years ago (I am 84 years old) I emerged from a dark place. Then, it was thought of as a very secret place (I mean in the world). I have been depicting this landscape ever since. Hinting at it and confronting the subject matter directly. The thicket of marks and the anatomical reference is all here on the paper.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDine's art seemingly flows effortlessly. His capacity to extend his visual ideas is astonishing, not only for someone in his ninth decade, but any age.\u003c\/em\u003e Ruth Fine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCo-published with Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExhibition: Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, 17 April to 23 May 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596706988268,"sku":"9783958296107","price":80.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783958296107-jim-dine.jpg?v=1777937615","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/jim-dine-9783958296107","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}