Edward Lear : moment to moment /
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| Author / Creator: | Lear, Edward, 1812-1888, artist. |
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| Imprint: | Birmingham, UK : Ikon Gallery, 2022. |
| Description: | 143 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm + 4 artcards/postcards |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12779692 |
| Summary: | This exhibition catalogue accompanies the 9 September - 13 November 2022 Ikon Gallery exhibition Edward Lear: Moment to Moment.Edward Lear: Moment to Moment is the first exhibition solely devoted to Lear's sketches and landscape drawings from across the entire span of his career. The exhibition studies the creative process itself, teasing out the thrilling, haunting evanescence of the moment and exploring Lear's commitment to the sketch as an unpredictable medium for essaying thought and feeling.The book contains full-colour illustrations of the works in the exhibition alongside essays by co-curator Matthew Bevis (Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford); Jenny Uglow (biographer and author of Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense (2018), Adam Phillips (psychoanalyst and writer), Hugh Haughton (Professor of Literature, University of York), and Stephen Duckworth.Moment to Moment is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), The Finnis Scott Foundation and University of Oxford. |
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| Item Description: | Edward Lear: Moment to Moment; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; 9 September - 13 November 2022. Exhibition curated by Matthew Bevis and Jonathan Watkins. |
| Physical Description: | 143 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm + |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-142). |
| ISBN: | 1911155350 9781911155355 |
