Cornelia Parker (Limited Edition)

HardCover. Pub Date :2013-06-03 Pages: 256 Language: English Publisher: Thames Hudson Cornelia Parker (b. 1956) is one of the most thoughtful and profound artists working in Britain today Her wide-ranging practice. chiefly in sculpture. and installation. touches on the fragility of human experience. Exploring everything from ghosts and gravity to relics and the unconscious. she transforms everyday. ordinary objects into compelling works of art. Parkers projects which have included blowing up a shed. steamrolling musical instruments. exploding a firework made from a pulverised meteorite. and suspending charcoal taken from a church struck by lightning have captured the public imagination since she first came to prominence in the 1990s. This monograph. the first full survey of Parkers career. traces the development of her art from the late 1970s to the present day. Organised ch...