Rosamond Purcell: Nature Stands Aside

A comprehensive monograph featuring over 150 illustrations that explores the career of Rosamond Purcell, renowned for her photographs that blur the lines between art and science. The book includes photographs, assemblages, collages, and installations that examine the boundaries between the unsettling and the sublime, the beautiful and the bizarre, the natural and the manufactured.

Format: Hardback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 13 September 2022
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications

A comprehensive monograph accompanies the inaugural museum survey of the renowned photographer and conceptual artist Rosamond Purcell (b. 1942), celebrated for her peculiarly captivating, frequently unsettling photographs of objects from the natural and man-made world. Boasting over 150 illustrations, the book showcases the breadth of the artist's career, spanning from the late 1960s to the present day, and encompasses photographs, assemblages, collages, and installations that serve to illuminate and explore the evolving boundaries between art and science. From large-format Polaroid prints to objects rescued from obscurity, Purcell's empathetic, evocative, multifaceted work delves into the interstices between the unsettling and the sublime, the beautiful and the bizarre, the natural and the manufactured. Accompanied by thoughtful and insightful texts from an eclectic array of critical voices, including acclaimed documentary filmmaker Errol Morris and writer Christopher Irmscher, and featuring an interview between Purcell and fellow contemporary artist Mark Dion, this book revitalizes the critical examination of Purcell's work and sheds light on the remarkable evolution of her career.

Weight: 1430g
Dimension: 248 x 289 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780847872282