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Chasing dragons : an uncommon memoir in photographs Bill Hayward ; foreword by Sam Barzilay

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Glitterati Incorporated, c2015.Description: 239 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 978-0989170499
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Contents:
Foreword / Sam Barzilay -- The master of ceremonies / Gordon Lish -- Prologue / Bill Hayward -- Mise-en-scène -- act 1. Traditional portraits -- act 2. Disruption and risk: Rackety opinion ; Acts and expressions ; Gesture and invention ; Shouts and songs ; A hundred words ; Certain dances ; Dismantled myth ; Broken odalisque ; Consider the flesh -- act 3. Portraits of the collaborative-self: The human bible ; The portrait process ; The thing itself ; 17 bedrooms -- act 4. Going live: Dance and performance ; The Intimacies Project ; Bent -- Act five. Film: Asphalt, muscle and bone -- Index of artworks -- One-of-a-kind books -- Annotated appendix.
Summary: "For more than fifty years, Hayward has endeavordd to bring light, through his art, to the strange and wondrous forms that lie hidden beneath the surface of things, revealing what is leftover when conventions fade away.... Presented here is a stunning visual autobiography, chronicling more than five decades of artistic vision. Arranged in five acts, Chasing Dragons traces the evolution of Hayward's work--from traditional portraiture to increasingly abstract and altered images, figurative paintings, dance, performance, and film. Join Hayward on this creative odyssey, exploring the fundamental elements of humankind and probing the mystery [that] lies at the core of your own being"--Page 4 of cover.
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REGULAR University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection 770.9245 HA CH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available T0053097

"For more than fifty years, Hayward has endeavordd to bring light, through his art, to the strange and wondrous forms that lie hidden beneath the surface of things, revealing what is leftover when conventions fade away.... Presented here is a stunning visual autobiography, chronicling more than five decades of artistic vision. Arranged in five acts, Chasing Dragons traces the evolution of Hayward's work--from traditional portraiture to increasingly abstract and altered images, figurative paintings, dance, performance, and film. Join Hayward on this creative odyssey, exploring the fundamental elements of humankind and probing the mystery [that] lies at the core of your own being"--Page 4 of cover.

Foreword / Sam Barzilay -- The master of ceremonies / Gordon Lish -- Prologue / Bill Hayward -- Mise-en-scène -- act 1. Traditional portraits -- act 2. Disruption and risk: Rackety opinion ; Acts and expressions ; Gesture and invention ; Shouts and songs ; A hundred words ; Certain dances ; Dismantled myth ; Broken odalisque ; Consider the flesh -- act 3. Portraits of the collaborative-self: The human bible ; The portrait process ; The thing itself ; 17 bedrooms -- act 4. Going live: Dance and performance ; The Intimacies Project ; Bent -- Act five. Film: Asphalt, muscle and bone -- Index of artworks -- One-of-a-kind books -- Annotated appendix.

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