{"product_id":"john-stezaker-lost-world-9781909932432","title":"John Stezaker: Lost World","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Geo Rey Batchen\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Ridinghouse\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Ridinghouse\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Individual Artists - Monographs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBritish Conceptual artist John Stezaker (b. 1949) is known for his distinctive, often deceptively simple, collages. He has been making art since the 1970s, but achieved prominence relatively recently. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 2011, he had a retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and, in 2012, he won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, even though he does not take photographs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStezaker says collage is about 'stuff that has lost its immediate relationship with the world' and involves 'a yearning for a lost world'. A collector, he works from an archive of out-of-date images--mostly old film stills, vintage actor head shots, and antique postcards. These images come in standard sizes and are highly conventionalised--all variations on themes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArt critic David Campany says, Stezaker 'is drawn to that very slim space between convention and idiosyncrasy.' \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn addition to collages, Lost World includes poignant found-object-sculptures: a selection of antique mannequin hands, offering a repertoire of gestures. There's also a film, Crowd, presenting hundreds of film stills of crowd scenes, each for one frame only, in a bewildering blur.","brand":"Ridinghouse","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47889877336215,"sku":"9781909932432","price":2700.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781909932432.webp?v=1781178079","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/john-stezaker-lost-world-9781909932432","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}