{"title":"Crescent Moon Publishing","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781861714480","title":"KURT JACKSON","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKURT JACKSON\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Jeremy Mark Robinson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA new book about the British landscape painter Kurt Jackson (b. 1961).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new edition includes a text which has been completely updated. There are also many new illustrations. including photographs taken for this new edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEXTRACT FROM CHAPTER 4:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of Kurt Jackson's appealing concepts is that the ocean is one of the last true wildernesses left on the planet. It's an idea that I found very interesting when he explained it to me when we first met in St Just. I took it that he meant a \u003cem\u003espiritual \u003c\/em\u003eas well as an ecological or natural wilderness. Jackson's art can thus be seen as an art that is the border region between humanity and nature, between culture and nature, as well as literally tackling that area - the coast - which is neither land nor sea. \u0026lt;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote that Kurt Jackson is always facing \u003cem\u003eoutwards \u003c\/em\u003efrom the land, and looking \u003cem\u003etowards \u003c\/em\u003ethe ocean, not painting with his back to the sea, and looking towards the land (and notice that the many boats and helicopters and such in this area are left out of the paintings, too).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo Kurt Jackson's \u003cem\u003ePorth \u003c\/em\u003eseries, about Priest Cove, and all of his sea paintings, are very important in his art in articulating this idea of the ocean as the last wilderness. 'Have you ever wondered what's out there?' is a question that Jackson asks (it's the title of one of his major paintings, too - the centrepiece of the \u003cem\u003ePorth \u003c\/em\u003eseries).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKurt Jackson has repeated the question over a number of related works: the title of two 2004 pieces is \u003cem\u003eThe Last Wilderness In Western Europe? \u003c\/em\u003eThis was painted on Jura (in Scotland), and both pictures are consciously emptied of human marks - just empty moorland and a delicate blue sky. An earlier picture, part of the \u003cem\u003eCape \u003c\/em\u003eseries, was entitled \u003cem\u003eDo You Ever Wonder What's Out There? \u003c\/em\u003e(1999) - an unusual composition in the Jackson \u003cem\u003eoeuvre \u003c\/em\u003ewhich puts the horizon very high, and focusses on the dark blue ocean flecked with white spray.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKurt Jackson isn't that interested in many of the connotations of the ocean - the moon, time, goddesses, rebirth (though moons do appear in his art from time to time). He's not really interested in religious or pagan or magical symbols in that way. And he's not that interested in shipping, fishing, and all things maritime, like J.M.W. Turner was.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eREVISED AND UPDATED, WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFully illustrated, with a revised text. Bibliography and notes. Hardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso available in hardback.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewww.crmoon.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eREVIEWS ON AMAZON:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA well- written and thoughtful book. Quite academic and appropriate really for careful reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eREVIEW ON AMAZON:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVery pleased with all aspects of my purchase: the book itself - so useful to gain such insight into an artist's life and inspirations. 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