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Title: Ronald Rae
Condition: New
Subtitle: An Inner Life
Author: Robert de Mey
Format: Hardback
EAN: 9781911397601
ISBN: 9781911397601
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
Genre: Arts & Photography
Release Date: 17/11/2023
Description: Ronald Rae is a rare example of a 'total artist' or Gesamtkunstler. Since penning his first cartoon at the age of 14, closely followed by taking a chisel to his first stone at 15, Rae created artworks almost every day for the next 60 years. Rae is best known as a granite sculptor, being the only artist working at scale on this most obdurate of materials using hand tools. After coming home exhausted from carving, Rae would also draw prolifically, and create work in a bewildering variety of media including ink and wax on paper, collage, carved and sun-inscribed wood, cardboard, found objects, books and newspapers. Themes included war, racism, social exclusion and alienation, humans and the animal world, early artforms, religion, and loss. Rae created extensive piano improvisations and he was also a published poet in Spain. This monograph contains a biography and covers the broad aspects of Rae's artistic development and his approach to his work. Extensively illustrated, the volume will introduce the artist to a new audience and bring attention to his visceral yet ultimately tender depiction of the human condition.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 240mm
Item Length: 220mm
Release Year: 2023

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