Helen Chadwick : constructing identities between art and architecture /

Highly respected by her peers and hugely influential on the subsequent generation of artists, British artist Helen Chadwick (1953-1996) produced a wide-ranging body of work in a variety of media. Stephen Walker identifies and explores a consistent range of issues and enduring interests that accompan...

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Main Authors: Walker, Stephen, 1966
Group Author: Chadwick, Helen.
Published: I.B. Tauris,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2013.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: International library of modern and contemporary art ; 14
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Summary: Highly respected by her peers and hugely influential on the subsequent generation of artists, British artist Helen Chadwick (1953-1996) produced a wide-ranging body of work in a variety of media. Stephen Walker identifies and explores a consistent range of issues and enduring interests that accompanied and supported Chadwick's realised work.
Carrier Form: xvi, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-220) and index.
ISBN: 9781780760070 (paperback) :
1780760078 (paperback)
Index Number: N6797
CLC: TU-85
K835.615.7
Call Number: K835.615.7/C432W
Contents: pt. 1. The creative process and the creative persona. The creative self ; The creative process and total pattern -- pt. 2. Experience, architecture and identity. Body and self ; 'Multistability' and viewing position -- pt. 3. Artifice and nature. The grotto and architectural conceit ; Architecture, the divinities and the authority of science ; 'Viral architecture' and the rapprochement of art and science -- pt. 4. Theory and practice. Geometry, 'stereonomy' and surface ; The role of making.