Research Catalog

Title

Certain Welsh artists : custodial aesthetics in contemporary Welsh art / introduced, compiled & edited by Iwan Bala.

Publication

Bridgend, Wales : Seren, 1999.

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Additional Authors

Bala, Iwan, 1956-

Description

200 p. : ill. (some col.); 26 cm.

Summary

"Certain Welsh Artists is a challenging examination of the intersection between art, culture and society. In it, artists, critics, and curators discuss the current 'hot' idea of custodial aesthetics and its relationship to visual art in Wales. The central premise - that artists consciously or unconsciously become the guardians of a culture - is the starting point for wide-ranging discussions by arts practitioners and theorists who, in personal statements and critically-acute essays, reveal the startling diversity of contemporary Welsh art."--Jacket.

Subject

• Art, Modern > Wales
• Art, Welsh
• National characteristics in art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword & acknowledgments -- Part1: 1. Introduction: custodial aesthetics / Iwan Bala -- 2. Uncertain curators / David Alston -- 3. The last shift / Tony Curtis -- 4. The layers of a landscape / Shelagh Hourahane -- 5. Maps, myths and the politics of art / Shelagh Hourahane -- Part 2: 6. Artist's statement / Peter Finnemore -- 7. Displaced memories / Ivor Davies -- 8. Imagination and the magic of tradition / John Meirion Morris -- 9. Formation and realignment / Glyn Jones -- Part 3: 10. The simplest aid to looking at Wales. Communications with Lois Williams / Iwan Bala -- 11. Blatant, latent: Tim Davies / Martin Barlow -- 12. Minding the gap: Bethan Huws / Martin Barlow -- 13. Pethau brau -- fragile things. The art of Catrin Williams / Tamara Krikorian -- 14. Mephistopheles at the twmpath / John Barnie -- Notes on contributors -- Index.

ISBN

1854112511

LCCN

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Owning Institutions

Harvard Library