{"title":"Books by Thomas Marks","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781848226265","title":"Hughie O'Donoghue","description":"\u003cp\u003eHughie O’Donoghue (b. 1953) explores themes of universal human experience, ideas of truth and the relationship between memory and identity. Often standing apart from his contemporaries in the scale and ambition of his paintings, O’Donoghue’s work addresses the need to learn the lessons and complexities of recent history through the lens of the often overlooked and anonymous individual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautifully illustrated, encompassing four decades of work, this major publication is the broadest survey of the artist to date. Including new writing from the artist alongside four commissioned essays by leading art historians and critics, with a preface by the poet Tom Paulin, this comprehensive book documents O’Donoghue’s ambitious vision.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308362838389,"sku":"9781848226265","price":49.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781848226265_9ce3ca97-5734-4180-9486-587698f020c6.jpg?v=1786029013"},{"product_id":"9781910221549","title":"Nick Goss – Smickel Inn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmickel Inn\u003c\/i\u003e is a publication of works by London-based Anglo-Dutch artist Nick Goss, produced by Ingleby, Edinburgh, and co-published with Matthew Brown, Los Angeles, and Anomie Publishing, London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlong with around sixty plates and illustrations, the publication features an essay by writer, journalist and critic Hettie Judah, and an in-conversation between Goss, fellow painter Michael Armitage and writer Thomas Marks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Smickel Inn is a real place in an unreal place,’ writes Judah, ‘a snack bar on an outer extremity of the port of Rotterdam.’ It’s a venue that is popular with port workers and sailors—a clientele of regular and transitory people often involved in sea freight or oil shipping, though their lives, personalities and stories are largely played out in Goss’s mixed-media paintings through the bar’s interior décor: an old vase with fresh flowers, a stack of glass ashtrays, a well-worn piano with a pile of books on top, an eclectic selection of picture frames with faded scenes and a clock that might only be right twice a day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFiltered through Goss’s imagination, Smickel Inn carries its history with it, much of it decorating the countertop; it’s a venue that charms with its informality—a place that knows itself, and its disparate customers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn real life, the bar has a cinematic view of the port and the North Sea, translated here, through Goss’s creative process of painting and silk-screening, into a scene from an engraving of seventeenth-century Sicily. Fragments from different places and eras infiltrate his images, creating a patina of palimpsests, visual echoes, perhaps, of memories of travellers coming through the port. The body of work takes us around the wider Dutch coastline and beyond—we see passengers on foot disembarking a ferry, have a backseat view of a car ride around the village of Stavenisse, and join a night-time campfire on the beach at Scheveningen, among other more mysterious, if not abstruse, locations and scenarios.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eObservation from contemporary life mingles with visual culture spanning centuries and continents in Goss’s oeuvre, creating lyrical yet strangely haunting and melancholic paintings, trapped in time somewhere between personal experience and collective memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNick Goss is an Anglo-Dutch painter, born in Bristol in 1981\\. He studied first at the Slade School of Art (2002–06) and then at the Royal Academy Schools, London (2006–09). He has exhibited widely in Europe and America, including solo exhibitions with Josh Lilley, London, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles, Simon Preston, New York, and Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin. His first institutional survey, Morley’s Mirror, was presented in 2019 at Pallant House, Chichester, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmickel Inn\u003c\/i\u003e is published to coincide with Goss’s first exhibition at Ingleby, Edinburgh, in the autumn of 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308848656757,"sku":"9781910221549","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781910221549_50b55ed3-85b7-4fa5-942a-8afabcef88f9.jpg?v=1786029635"},{"product_id":"9781913645342","title":"Luigi Pericle – A Rediscovery","description":"This important book presents the work of the fascinating and singular artist Luigi Pericle (1916–2001). Pericle was a painter, illustrator and scholar, as well as a leading figure in the story of art in the second half of the twentieth century.   The artist initially found fame as an illustrator, gaining widespread renown in the 1950s as the inventor of the character Max the Marmot. But his intense, enigmatic and multi-layered paintings increasingly drew the attention of the art world, with works that reflect his personal, metaphysical take on post-war abstraction exhibited at numerous venues in Britain during the 1960s. Pericle then abruptly retreatedfrom the art system, and for the rest of his life continued to paint, write and to study esoteric philosophy in the secluded house he shared with his wife Orsolina on Monte Verit  in the Ticino region of Switzerland. The artist’s work was dramatically rediscovered in 2016 when the contents of his former residence were revealed. The process of restoring, cataloguing and researching his vast oeuvre is ongoing, and is overseen by Ascona’s Archivio Luigi Pericle, with which the exhibition has been organised.   This beautifully illustrated publication, which accompanies an exhibition at the Estorick Collection, London, includes a full catalogue of the works, as well as essays by noted scholars.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309149794677,"sku":"9781913645342","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781913645342_a2afb981-a203-4024-94f0-52cd3ab2cced.jpg?v=1786030252"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-thomas-marks.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}