Raqib Shaw / edited by Honey Luard; essays by Norman Rosenthal, Dawn Ades, Diana Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaw, Raqib, 1974- artist.

Contributor:

Luard, Honey, editor.

Ades, Dawn, contributor.

Rosenthal, Norman, contributor.

Betancourt, Diana Campbell, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Modern--21st century.

Art, Modern.

Indian painters--England--London.

Indian painters.

Painting, British--21st century.

Painting, British.

Genre:

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

255 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York ] : Rizzoli Electa, [2024]

Summary:

"The first monograph on more than thirty years' work by the Indian-born British artist, whose opulent, brightly colored paintings have made him one of the most extraordinary and sought-after artists working today. Shaw's work is as vibrant and ornate in color and detail as it is ambitious in scope, with a remarkable synergy between his fantastical and often violent imagery and the delicacy of his technique. Deeply inspired by the old masters but infused with his own personal iconography, and drawing equally on eastern and western mythology, his work represents a compelling and profoundly contemporary hybridization of aesthetics and sensibilities. His opulent and intricately detailed paintings of fantastical worlds, often with surfaces inlaid with vibrantly colored jewels and painted in enamel, reveal an eclectic fusion of influences--from Persian carpets and Northern Renaissance painting to industrial materials and Japanese lacquerware--but ultimately reflect the universality of the human condition. Collected here, in the first comprehensive monograph on the artist to date, are more than 100 of Shaw's works, representing thirty years of painting in which intricate detail, rich color, and bejeweled surfaces mask the intensity and depth of his imagery"--Amazon.ca.

Contents:

Dreams and realities of exile / Norman Rosenthal

Garden of earthly delights (2003-05)

Absence of god (2007-09)

On pleasure and pain / Dawn Ades

Paradise lost (2001-16)

Self-portraits (2013-18)

Landscapes of Kashmir (2017-19)

Palazzo della memoria (2015-22)

Reading Raqib Shaw in the wake of libricide / Diana Campbell

Space between dreams (2022-23)

Biography.

ISBN:

9780847832040

084783204X

OCLC:

1458305439