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Rosamond Purcell NATURE STANDS ASIDE
GORDON WILKINS, MARK DION, CHRISTOPH IRMSCHER, ERROL MORRIS, AND BELINDA RATHBONE IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ADDISON GALLERY OF AMERICAN ART, ANDOVER, MA
A major monograph published to accompany the rst museum survey of the renowned photographer and conceptual artist Rosamond Purcell (b. 1942), known for her strangely beautiful, often unsettling photographs of objects from the natural and man-made world. Re ecting the breadth of the artist’s career from the late 1960s to the present day, Nature Stands Aside includes more than 150 photographs and assemblages that explore the shifting boundaries between art and science. From large-format Polaroid prints to objects rescued from obscurity, Purcell’s empathetic, evocative, multifaceted work explores the interstices between the unsettling and the sublime, the beautiful and the bizarre, the natural and the manufactured. With revealing notes from the artist herself alongside insightful texts from an eclectic list of critical voices—including the lmmaker Errol Morris and the writer Christopher Irmscher— and featuring an interview between Purcell and fellow contemporary artist Mark Dion, this book rejuvenates the critical approach to Purcell’s work and illuminates the evolution of a remarkable career. Gordon Wilkins is the Robert M. Walker Associate Curator of American Art at the Addison Gallery of American Art. Mark Dion is a New York-based conceptual artist. Christoph
Irmscher is a writer and biographer, and author of The Poetics
of Natural History (photographs by Rosamond Purcell). Errol Morris is an Academy Award–winning documentary
filmmaker. Belinda Rathbone is a writer, historian, and critic of photography. Exhibition Schedule: Addison Gallery of American Art: September 2022–January 2023
PHOTOGRAPHY 208 pages, 9½ x 11" 150 color & b/w illustrations Hardcover • 9780847872282 $65.00 USD, $85.00 CAD, £47.95 GBP September 13, 2022 Rights: World RIZZOLI ELECTA