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Tacita Dean: Antigone - (Hardcover)

Tacita Dean: Antigone - (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Documenting Tacita Dean's new film work on the many resonances of Sophocles' drama</strong></p><p>Tacita Dean's (born 1965) <i>Antigone</i> (2018) is an hour-long 35mm anamorphic film, and is the most complex work to date by the British-European artist. The name of this work combines the artist's personal history with the mythological world order: Antigone is the heroine in the eponymous drama by the Greek poet Sophocles, and is also the name of Tacita Dean's older sister. The name creates a double bond full of ambivalences and is the reason for Dean's exploration of the character. <p/>The leitmotif of the work is blindness: <i>Antigone</i> revolves around fundamental questions of foresight and destiny, seeing and not seeing, and metaphorical blindness as a necessity for artistic work. It is also a thoroughly analogue work: Dean assembled the film images, which appear like collages, with and inside the camera using sophisticated stencils and multiple exposures. The result of this experimental project is both a pioneering achievement and a masterpiece. The book documents the narrative of the making and impact of this work.</p>

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