- Hardcover: 88 pages
- Publisher: Steidl; 1 edition (Nov 21 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 3882432403
- ISBN-13: 978-3882432404
- Product Dimensions: 32 x 30.4 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 Kg
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#1,124,138 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #9 in Books > Arts & Photography > Artists, A-Z > ( D-F ) > Dine, Jim
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Mysterious, ominous and perplexing…like stills from a nightmarish dream…yet they can be appreciated solely in terms of their individual beauty. -- The New York Times Book Review, December 2, 2001 –Andy Grundberg
Book Description
A childhood encounter with a crow at a zoo led to a lifetime fascination with avian life for the American artist Jim Dine. This encounter with the bird was perceived by the young Dine with a mixture of fear, fascination and a deeper understanding of his unconscious world, and from it grew a mythic personal symbolism, which he explores in Birds, a series of remarkable black-and-white photographs. Here, an everyday, unspectacular bird might appear to the beholder as a character of mythology, as a jester at a Medieval court, or as a strange messenger from a world behind the scenes. These are rich, intimate, darkly detailed images imbued with symbolism and meaning. They are also beautiful and compelling, particularly as published in this spectacular volume, which, with 36 images printed using a technique called heliogravure, and with a Japanese binding, is a truly beautiful object in itself, and reveals a new aspect of Dine's work.
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A Jim Dine disappointment
July 6 2009
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I have a curious facination with Jim Dine's work. Love some his suff, but this book proved to be an expensive, utterly disappointing experience. Maybe I just didn't "get it" or perhaps you know, sometimes you're dealing with a case of the "emperor's new clothes" kind of mentality.
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