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Publisher Note

With a preface by Beatrix Ruf. Robots in the garden, lions, hunters, romance and war are some of the images in Laura Owens' new work. Owens' influences are wide, ranging from DADA performance to hindu relief ; elsewhere she has broken away from the fine arts to delve into wallpapers and textiles. Beyond the straightforward beauty of Owens' paintings and drawings is a constant questioning of her chosen media. She has rejected naturalism in favour of depictions, representations. Her magpie-like approach to resources is echoed in her application of paint and the arrival of foreign elements in her collages. Evident too is an unashamed pleasure in ornamentation, a delight in pictorial elegance, which affords decoration a new dignity. Owens combines abstract elements with representational elements to create a highly personal vocabulary: a vocabulary which translates into an elaborate, elegant and quietly exuberant whole. http://www.jrp-editions.com/pages/index.php?id_r=4&id_t=&id_p=15&id_b=724&search=laura%20owens&page=1&total=2
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Publisher
Release Place Zurich, Switzerland
Release Date 2006
Credits
Artist: Laura Owens
Identifiers
ISBN-13: 978-3-905770-11-7
Original Price 70.00 CHF
Work  
Topics Fantasy Worlds, Gestural, Illusion, Illustrative, Still Life
Methods Painting
Language German, English
Format Hardcover
Dimensions 25.5 × 32.5 × 3.0 cm
Weight 1,925 gram
Pages 192
Content 80 color; 40 b/w images

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Laura Owens

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