Saturday, March 13, 2004

"The Architect's Brother" by Robert Parke Harrison

An amazing new art book:

Praise for Robert Parke Harrison's "The Architect's Brother":

He (Robert ParkeHarrison) comes down on the side of lamentation but expresses it with an unusual combination of poetic license, laboriously constructed props and a wry and melancholy, vaguely allusive sense of myth. He appears in every picture, in a black suit and white shirt with no tie, a kind of Everyman or a minor employee of the universe, patiently, dutifully doing a job that's too big for him. That job is essentially to take care of the devastated Earth with inadequate equipment. He works or performs obscure rituals in large and empty landscapes beneath gray skies. Perhaps this is one man's private way of saying that neither pollution, global warming nor digitalization can entirely extinguish the hands-on experience and the human desire to create.
Vicki Goldberg, The New York Times

See Images from the Book

(courtesy of Orion)

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