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Deeply informed by unfolding events in the Philippines, where the artist was born and raised, his work emanates from a family narrative woven into the nation’s story. Abad’s parents were at the forefront of the anti-dictatorship struggle in the Philippines during the 1970s and 80s and it is the need to remember this history that has shaped the foundations of his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis beautifully designed book accompanies the Ashmolean Museum's second exhibition of its new \u003cem\u003eAshmolean NOW\u003c\/em\u003e series, featuring the work of Pio Abad. Abad’s artistic practice is concerned with the personal and political entanglements of objects. His wide-ranging body of work, which includes drawing, painting, installation, textiles and text, mines alternative or repressed historical events, offering counternarratives. Abad's new works link narratives found in the Museum's collections and Oxford with his personal life in the UK and Philippines, where the artist was born and raised. The book features a new text by Abad and contributions by art historical experts including Dan Hicks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308475101557,"sku":"9781910807606","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781910807606_c0a03283-b449-4798-982a-1a42d9e68191.jpg?v=1791842250"},{"product_id":"9781910807583","title":"Ashmolean NOW: Daniel Crews-Chubb x Flora Yukhnovich","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book will coincide with the first Ashmolean \u003cem\u003eNOW\u003c\/em\u003e exhibition in Gallery 8, opening in July 2023. 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Instantly recognisable and inescapably associated with the existentialist despair of his time, these unusual figures presented a vulnerable image of humanity in which a generation traumatised by the war recognised itself, but they also continue to remain intensely meaningful to contemporary society today.   This book is a key introduction to the life and work of Giacometti. It follows the story of his artistic evolution, from his first sketchbooks and paintings inspired by his father’s colourful post-impressionist style to his formative experience with death that shaped his obsession with the subject throughout his career. Exploring the artist’s move towards curious surrealist compositions and the emergence of his mature style, it celebrates the enduring power of one of the most internationally acclaimed sculptors of the post-war era.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313083068789,"sku":"9781849769938","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781849769938_7792c547-62c3-4294-99e0-37bcc008737f.jpg?v=1786029558"},{"product_id":"9780500028384","title":"Ishiuchi Miyako: Traces","description":"A fifty-year career retrospective of Ishiuchi Miyako, Japan’s most influential living female photographer.     Through subjects as diverse as old apartment blocks, human scars, kimono fabrics, personal belongings of the deceased and even her own water-damaged prints, Ishiuchi Miyako manifests the invisible, capturing time, atmosphere and memory in photographic form. Her work is at once deeply personal and evocative of the wider world hinted at by the traces recorded within the frame.   Since beginning her career in the 1970s, Ishiuchi has become one of Japan’s foremost photographers, leading the way for female practitioners in a scene that has traditionally been male dominated. Ishiuchi Miyako: Traces charts the course of her practice over fifty years and identifies themes that resurface throughout her work, including her relationship with place, the passage of time and the bodies and possessions of people, always with an emphasis on materiality and ephemerality. Three thematic sections – Town, Skin \u0026amp; Scars and Things Left Behind – include series such as Yokosuka Story, which documents her hometown; 1 · 9 · 4 · 7, in which she photographed the hands and feet of fifty women born in the same year as her; and Frida, which catalogues the possessions of the artist Frida Kahlo. The major photographic series appear alongside lesser-known works and previously unpublished material.   With extracts from Ishiuchi’s previous writings, an in-depth interview by Lena Fritsch and a newly commissioned essay by Ishiuchi herself, the artist’s voice is present throughout.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368038871413,"sku":"9780500028384","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780500028384.jpg?v=1791212750"},{"product_id":"mika-ninagawa-goldfish","title":"Mika Ninagawa: Goldfish","description":"The only English-language monograph on one of Japan’s most influential contemporary artists, Mika Ninagawa, presenting presenting the dazzling, dream-like world of her photography, installation and film.     Emerging from Onnanoko shashin, the Japanese ‘girly photography’ movement of the late 1990s, Mika Ninagawa’s navigation of the once male-dominated photography scene has established her as a cultural phenomenon in Japan, her impact reaching across art, cinema, fashion and advertising.     Written by Lena Fritsch, an expert in 20th- and 21st-century Japanese art and photography, Mika Ninagawa: Goldfish brings together Ninagawa’s vibrant photographs, large-scale immersive installations and her work as a film director. Fritsch’s frank, light-hearted conversations with Ninagawa reveal her personal perspective on her career to date. Short texts introduce the recurring themes of fragility and strength, reality and fiction, that form the major motifs of her photography, and an essay by Japanese film expert Jennifer Coates explores her work as a director, including her semi-autobiographical Netflix show, Followers.     Bold, immersive and visually irresistible, this is an essential book for lovers of contemporary art, photography and Japanese visual culture.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57536452624757,"sku":"9780500032107","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-lena-fritsch.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}