Michael Petry Books

The definitive book highlighting the growing number of artists who collaborate with artisans and craftsmen to realize their work.

A fascinating overview of how contemporary artists incorporate text and language into work that speaks to some of the most pressing issues of the 21st century.

Explores the concepts of authorship, artistic originality, skill, craftsmanship and the creative act. This title highlights the vital role that skills from craft and industrial production play in creating some of the most innovative and highly sought-after works of art.

South African born artist Nick Fox is most well-known for his seductive tondos, delicate drawings and intricate objet d'art. Informed by eclectic high and low art reference points, Fox explores personal symbols and cultural meanings of longing, seduction, desire and loss.This comprehensive volume is dedicated to Fox's new and highly personal body of work Nightsong, produced between 2009 and 2012. Musing upon the spiritual panacea of moonlight, Nightsong explores the physical and emotional instability and the bittersweet intensification of longing that comes as a result of rejection and loss.Glass sculptures, video installations, photography, and sound work are presented alongside new paintings, drawings and cyanotype prints, revealing Fox's visual musings on intimate revelations; the collective longing that connects humanity.Extensively illustrated and elegantly echoed through the book design, this volume is published following the touring exhibition of this series at H gamle prestegard, Norway (2011) and Vane, Newcastle (24 November 2012 - 2 February 2013).

Reveals how leading artists of the twenty-first century are reinvigorating the still life, a genre previously synonymous with the sixteenth- and seventeenth- century Old Masters. In this book, short introductions begin each chapter and are followed by spreads that pair each work with a reading of its significance to the still-life tradition.