Hidden by
Paul Seawright. First edition (2003). First impression. Large format hardback in near fine condition. Slight toning to edges of pages. Binding firm. General wear to dust jacket, now in a removable protective sleeve. Please see pictures. PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch.
About Hidden
Hidden was a response to the war in Afghanistan in 2002. The Imperial War Museum in London commissioned the book in their longstanding series of war art commissions. So, photographs of minefields and battle sites acknowledge that almost everything in the conflict was hidden or invisible.
In Hidden, the violence is defined, but yet to happen. ‘The minefield provides a succinct and powerful means of conveying this lingering threat and menace, but unlike many of Seawrights other landscapes, enables him to suggest a force and deadly threat beyond and opposed to the beauty…. The violence in these landscapes of minefields is still to come, present but hidden, primed, a future devastation.'
Artist Bio
Paul Seawright is Professor of Photography and also Executive Dean of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Ulster. In 2002 he was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum London to undertake a war art commission in Afghanistan and his photographs of battle sites and minefields have subsequently been exhibited all over the world. In North America, Canada, Ireland, Spain, France, Germany, Korea, Japan as well as China. Then, in 2003 he represented Wales at the Venice Biennale of Art and in 1997 won the Irish Museum of Modern Art/Glen Dimplex Prize. He is represented by the Kerlin Gallery Dublin.
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