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Desdemona for Celia by Hilton
Title
Desdemona for Celia by Hilton / Celia Paul & Hilton Als.
ISBN
0993442005
9780993442001
Publication
London, UK : Victoria Miro, [2016]
Copyright Notice Date
©2015
Physical Description
103 pages : illustrations, portraits (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Notes
Artists' book conceived by British painter Celia Paul and US writer and critic Hilton Als. Published to coincide with the exhibition Celia Paul, 16 September - 29 October 2016, at Victoria Miro Mayfair, London.
"Desdemona for Celia by Hilton, Gallery Met at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, a collaboration between Hilton Als and Celia Paul organized by Dodie Kazanjian on the occasion of the Metropolitan Opera's production of 'Otello', 22 September 2015 - 16 January 2016." -- Colophon.
Genre terms marked as local are from ARLIS/NA Artists' Books Thesaurus, accessed 11/22/2016. http://allisonjai.com/abt/vocab/index.php
Summary
"'Desdemona for Celia by Hilton' is a multifaceted collaboration between artist Celia Paul and Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer Hilton Als. A concise selection of drawings and paintings by Paul are illustrated. In addition, both Als and Paul have contributed previously unpublished texts and a personal selection of photographs to the publication, with is borne ot of a creative conversation inspired in part by Verdi's opera 'Otello". Invited to curate an exhibition at Gallery Met, New York relating to the Metropolitan Opera's recent production of 'Otello' (on view from September 2015 - January 2016) Als was immediately drawn to Paul's delicate and moving explorations of people and landscape. While Paul doesn't work explicitly from literary sources, the human desires and failings Desdemona's story expresses resonate in her haunting depictions of women and water. Titled 'Desdemona for Hilton by Celia' to celebrate the continuing conversation between Paul and Als, the show features new seascapes and portratis win which a sense of mortality coexists with the consoling beauty of nature and the flow of time that connects us all." Publisher
Variant and related titles
Celia Paul & Hilton Als
Celia Paul and Hilton Als
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 10, 2018
Subjects
Genre/Form
Artists' books.
Multiples.
Case bindings.
Hollow back bindings.
Cloth bindings.
Endpapers.
Artists' books.
Also listed under
Victoria Miro Gallery, publisher.
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