Nataraj sharma (3 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Unpaginated. Colour plates. Corners bumped.

Paperback. Condición: VG. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. Very nice clean copy. It was perhaps Francis Picabia who first recognized the erotic potential of machines. His paintings and prints from the 1920s often substituted pistons, gears, engines and propellers for human anatomy, fetishising the intimacy of their forms as if they might be genitalia. Picabia's project was ironically romantic, caught up in the glamour of industrialization that was a hallmark of his time, his paintings often classically beautiful while deeply sardonic. Jump cut to the end of the century and a place far from Paris. A young painter in search of a subject matter to claim as his own focuses bn the changes taking place in the landscape around him ? fields and lots full of the hulking machinery used to carve roadways and build structures. He recognizes something anthropomorphic but also emotional in these machines, often abandoned to decay or arranged into what could be mistaken as social groupings.…

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED and dated by Natural Sharma. This is an exhibition catalog from 2005 with essays by Peter Nagy and Ranjit Hoskote, To Bridle the Tremours. Fine exhibition catalog, clean and tight. Cover and interior in fine shape. Slight fading on cover. Interesting art work. Limited edition of 1000 copies. BP Contemporary Art of India Series, Volume 22. M00856. Signed by Author(s).…