Antony Gormley: Blind Light [Hardcover]

W.J.T. Mitchell (Author), Susan Stewart (Author), Anthony Vidler (Author), Antony Gormley (Author), Ralph Rugoff (Contributor), Jacky Klein (Contributor), SMITH (Designer)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2007 | ISBN-10: 185332258X | ISBN-13: 978-1853322587

Over the past 25 years, Antony Gormley, perhaps Britain's best-known living sculptor, has revitalized the human image in sculpture. He won the 1994 Turner Prize and has had solo exhibitions at the Whitechapel, Tate, and Hayward galleries, White Cube and The British Museum, and internationally at the Corcoran Gallery, Documenta and the Venice Biennale. His radical investigations of the body as a place of memory and transformation use his own corpus as subject, tool and material. Conflating figure and ground, inside and outside, the physical and the psychological, Gormley explores complex relationships between the city, its architecture and its people. This richly illustrated catalogue is filled with new, never-before-seen sculptural works--a series of figures in light-infused webs of steel, and the monumental steel-block "Space Station," 20 feet high. Photographer Gautier Deblonde also chronicles a major new public project, "Event Horizon," which sites some 30 sculptures on buildings across central London, dramatically altering the city skyline. An in-depth interview with Gormley explores the development of his new work, as well as his relationship to the artists who have inspired him and to his contemporaries in the field of figurative sculpture.

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About the Author

Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950. He won the 1994 Turner Prize and has exhibited extensively, with solo shows throughout the U.K. in venues such as the Whitechapel, Tate, and Hayward galleries, The British Museum, and White Cube, and internationally at museums including the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. He has participated in major group shows such as the Venice Biennale and Documenta.

Anthony Vidler is Dean of the Cooper Union School of Architecture and former professor and chairman of the Department of Art History and Architecture at the University of California, L.A. He is widely known for his essays on issues at the heart of the most pressing debates surrounding architecture today.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Hayward Gallery Publishing (July 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 185332258X
• ISBN-13: 978-1853322587
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,230,455 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well done book about an interesting exhibition, October 30, 2007

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This is a very well done book about an interesting exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London in 2007. The show was extraordinarily popular - do a web search for some articles and reviews.

The images, including some multi-page fold outs, do a good job of capturing the scattered works of Event Horizon. Honestly, I didn't think a book could do it, so it was a pleasant surprise.

The Amazon price seems very reasonable - usually art books seem to have exceptionally high prices. It was difficult to even find the book in the UK, since all the printings sold out at the show.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars top stuff, April 9, 2009

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love this book, and love the great service. really quick international delivery, too - i'll be buying from the strand bookstore again! thanks!
what a great exhibition, with a top quality catalogue to complement fantastic works. gormley is amazing.