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Awake in the Dream World: The Art of Audrey Niffenegger

Hardback

Main Details

Title Awake in the Dream World: The Art of Audrey Niffenegger
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Audrey Niffenegger
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:128
Dimensions(mm): Height 286,Width 248
Category/GenreArt and design styles - from c 1960 to now
Individual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9781910702598
ClassificationsDewey:709.2
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Vintage Publishing
Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publication Date 3 December 2015
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

A magnificent large-format book collecting all Audrey Niffenegger's paintings and drawings Otherworldly, provocative, and strange, Audrey Niffenegger's art is a vital a part of her vision as her bestselling novels The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry. Awake in the Dream World is a mid-career retrospective of Nifffenegger's work, reflecting her talent for cultivating a captivating narrative exclusively through pictures and her own confrontations with life, mortality, and magic. Niffenegger's fantastical body of work is reminiscent of renowned pen and ink predecessors such as Edward Gorey, Aubrey Beardsley, Egon Schiele, Edward Dulac, and Horst Janssen, but with a brutally honest and unapologetically strange female perspective that touches upon the universal trials of life - death and decay, love, jealousy, redemption, and the inevitability of change. Her works on paper, lithographs, and aquatints reflect the often surreal narratives of her artist's books. Through self-portraiture, Niffenegger reveals her own self-assurance and whimsy alongside anxiety and loneliness, probing darker corners of the human heart and mind, often exploring the hopeless struggle with what Shakespeare called 'this bloody tyrant, Time'. Essays by Audrey Niffenegger, National Museum of Women in the Arts Curator of Book Arts Krystyna Wasserman, and Art Institute of Chicago Curator and School of the Art Institute Professor Mark Pascale explore the artist's influences and work. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts

Author Biography

Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and writer who lives mostly in Chicago and occasionally in London. She has published six books, including the novels The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry. She helped to found the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. Her art has been exhibited by Printworks Gallery in Chicago since 1986. She is a Professor in the Fiction Department of Columbia College. Her recent projects include a ballet, Raven Girl, in collaboration with Wayne McGregor for the Royal Opera House Ballet.

Reviews

Spare, fable-like narratives featuring betrayals and metamorphoses, with touches of Aubrey Beardsley and Egon Schiele... As well as strange self-portraits and recent drawings on the themes of birth, death and books. -- Erica Wagner * New Statesman *