{"product_id":"bea-nettles-harvest-of-memory-hardback-9781477319253","title":"Bea Nettles; Harvest of Memory (Hardback) 9781477319253","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBea Nettles\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHarvest of Memory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJamie M. Allen (Edited by), Olivia Lahs-Gonzales (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477319253, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 October 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 196 color photos, 92 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e24.1 x 26.7 x 2.5 cm, 1.674 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThere is a kind of magic in Nettles’s work, as though she isn’t recording reality in her images but creating it. This feels true of her process as well-its unique combination of chance and manual manipulation. The focus of much photography is the outside world; Nettles turns the camera on her interior life, producing images that are reflective and representative of her memories as well as of her feelings.\u003c\/div\u003e (New York Review of Books) \u003cdiv\u003eA gorgeous, massive new monograph.\u003c\/div\u003e (Nashville Scene) \u003cdiv\u003eIn our age of ubiquitous selfies and 'mixed media' it is refreshing to review the work of an artist who is truly a pioneer in the area of visual self-evaluation with artistic purposes. With a strong background in painting, a fearless approach to self-assessment, and a love of language, Bea Nettles is a shining example for effectively integrating photography, especially alternative processes, with other modes of visual and verbal expression...Highly recommended!\u003c\/div\u003e (PhotoBook Journal) \u003cdiv\u003e[Nettles'] work engages with a core series of ideas through multiple, innovative approaches. I am struck by the depth of emotion, and her willingness to share her own story and experiences so candidly and powerfully, in her work...This exhibition, catalog, and new scholarship reaffirm her position within the history of art and photography as an essential, influential, and powerful artist.\u003c\/div\u003e (Strange Fire Collective) \u003cdiv\u003eThe gorgeous catalogue accompanying this current well-deserved and long-overdue comprehensive retrospective of her dizzyingly diverse work...goes a long way to serving as an ideal introduction of the public to this larger-than-life yet almost invisible presence on the cultural scene...Bea Nettles has proven herself to be not only a long-distance runner and survivor but also an exemplary exponent of that most alluring of contemporary art mandates: the re-enchantment of everyday life.\u003c\/div\u003e (Critics At Large)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom her hand-colored, machine-stitched photographic prints to her artist’s books and well-known \u003ci\u003eMountain Dream Tarot\u003c\/i\u003e card deck (the first-known photographic treatment of the tarot) Bea Nettles’s work has always upended tradition. \u003ci\u003eBea Nettles: Harvest of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e presents the span of her art across half a century, in conjunction with an exhibition co-organized by the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, and the Sheldon Art Galleries in St. Louis, Missouri.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecognized for her innovations in mixed-media photography, Nettles used alternative photographic processes that produced textured works, with subjects including self-portraits; investigations of the body and its relationship to nature and landscape; and the experience of mothering, loss, and aging. A tremendously productive artist, Nettles has received critical acclaim, and her work has become part of museum permanent collections from coast to coast. Now, for the first time in her fifty-year career, \u003ci\u003eBea Nettles: Harvest of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e offers a large-scale retrospective of an artist who profoundly illuminates our inner worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword (Bruce Barnes)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface (Olivia Lahs-Gonzales)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I. Essays \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOvercoming Constraints (Jamie M. Allen)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBea Nettles: Artist\/Mother (Olivia Lahs-Gonzales)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePhotographic Objects\/Institutional Artifacts: Bea Nettles in Context (Amy L. Powell)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart II. Plates and Texts \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOpening Statement (Bea Nettles)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlates: 1968–\u003cbr\u003e1975\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMountain Dream Tarot (Bea Nettles)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlates: 1975–\u003cbr\u003e1992\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComplexities (Bea Nettles)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlates 1995–\u003cbr\u003e2011\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGravestone Poetry (Bea Nettles)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlates: 2011–\u003cbr\u003e2015\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClosing Statement: (Bea Nettles)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelected Chronology (Jamie M. Allen with Bea Nettles)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelected Bibliography (Jamie M. Allen)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePhotography Credits\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739369107736,"sku":"9781477319253","price":36.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/bea-nettles-harvest-of-memory-hardback-9781477319253","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}