The lost house revisited / Ed Kluz ; texts by Tim Knox & Olivia Horsfall Turner ; foreword by John Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kluz, Ed, 1980- artist.

Contributor:

Knox, Tim, writer.

Horsfall Turner, Olivia, writer.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kluz, Ed, 1980---Catalogs.

Kluz, Ed.

Architecture, Domestic.

Country homes--Great Britain.

Country homes.

Great Britain.

Manors--Great Britain.

Manors.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

190 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Merrell Publishers Limited, 2017.

Summary:

The artist Ed Kluz has a fascination for the sites of lost buildings. Kluz grew up in the wilds of the Yorkshire Dales, surrounded by the landscape of the past, and the sense of remoteness he felt there sparked an interest in forgotten places, such as country houses and follies. Once-celebrated houses that were abandoned to ruin, burned or deliberately destroyed have now become the haunting subject matter of his distinctive collages. Kluz is meticulous in his research. He spends hours at a site, sketching, taking photographs and generally 'getting to the heart of a place'. Then, in a process in which he likens himself to a collector of fragments or relics, he gathers all the material he can find before adding a little invention of his own to revive or re-imagine the house. His highly original works are a combination of watercolour and layer upon layer of delicate painted collage elements, the tension between colour and texture achieving a sense of depth and light. Kluz's lost houses conjure up the vanished buildings in all their pomp, perched on stark, treeless plains under threatening skies, as if briefly illuminated in the glare of lightening or the beam of an arc light.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-186) and index.

ISBN:

185894662X

9781858946627

OCLC:

964380526