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The shabbiness of beauty / Moyra Davey, Peter Hujar ; [with a text by] Eileen Myles, [an text of afterword by] Stephen Koch.
Fisher Fine Arts Circulation TR655 .D38 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davey, Moyra, artist, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Davey, Moyra.
- Hujar, Peter, 1934-1987.
- Photography, Artistic.
- art photography.
- Genre:
- photobooks.
- Photobooks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged (128 unnumbered pages)) : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Moyra Davey : the shabbiness of beauty : Peter Hujar
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : MACK, [2021]
- Summary:
- 'The Shabbiness of Beauty' is a visual dialogue that crosses generational divides with the easy intimacy of a late-night phone call. Multidisciplinary artist Moyra Davey delved into Peter Hujar's archives and emerged mainly with little-known, scarcely seen images. In response to these, Davey created her own images that draw out an idiosyncratic selection of shared subjects. Side by side, the powerfully composed images admire, tease, and enhance one another in the manner of fierce friends, forming a visual exploration of physicality and sexuality that crackles with wit, tenderness, and perspicacity. Spiritually anchored in New York City, even as they range out to rural corners of Quebec and Pennsylvania, these images crystallise tensions between city and country, human and animal. Nudes pose with unruly chickens; human bodies are abstracted toward topography; seascapes and urban landscapes share the same tremulous plasticity. These continuities are punctuated by stark differences of approach: Davey's self-aware postmodernism against Hujar's humanism and embrace of darkroom manipulation. The rich dialogue between these photographs is personal and angular, ultimately offering an illuminating reintroduction to each celebrated artist through communion with the other's work.--Publisher's website.
- Notes:
- Pagination calculated, and based on statement on the page with list of works of "Peter Hujar".
- "Page 115, Shoe (for Elizabeth), 1981"--Page with list of works of "Peter Hujar".
- Chiefly illustrations.
- ISBN:
- 9781913620202
- 1913620204
- OCLC:
- 1202052687
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