Onomatopoeia: its people and surroundings

In 2005, Scottish Artist Charles Avery embarked on a long-term project entitled The Islanders, a detailed description of the topography, cosmology and inhabitants of a fictional island, realised in drawings, objects and texts. This book is a portrait of the people and culture of Onomatopoeia, capita...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Frame Publishers [2016]
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Zusammenfassung:In 2005, Scottish Artist Charles Avery embarked on a long-term project entitled The Islanders, a detailed description of the topography, cosmology and inhabitants of a fictional island, realised in drawings, objects and texts. This book is a portrait of the people and culture of Onomatopoeia, capital city, port and gateway to the Island. The town was once the stepping off point for pioneers and travellers. It grew from an outpost to a bustling boomtown, before entering a phase of decline into depression ravaged slum, and now – in the fictional present – finds itself reborn as a regenerated city of culture with its own Museum of Modern Art. The third book about Charles Avery’s ongoing body of work entitled The Islanders. Since 2005, the artist has devoted his practice to the description of a fictional island which he continues to elaborate on; an island with its own population, customs and cosmology. Onomatopoeia showcases new drawings, sculptures and other objects that are part of this long-term project about an imaginary world
Beschreibung:256 Seiten 32 cm
ISBN:9789491727962