Exercise of Power The Art of Ana Maria Pacheco SIGNED BY THE ARTIST
- Artist: Ana Maria Pacheco
- Published: 2001
- Publisher: Lund Humphries, London
- Edition: -
- Format: Hardback
- Height: 26cm
- Pages: 96
- Illustrations: Illustrated throughout (many colour)
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Exercise of Power traces the career of Ana Maria Pacheco, a remarkable sculptor, painter, printmaker, from her origins and education in Brazil, through her arrival in England as a British Council scholar at the Slade in 1973, and her development over the next twenty-five years into one of the outstanding figurative artists of her time, crowned by her residency at the National Gallery, London in 1999.
This Ana Maria Pacheco art book explores the strands of the Baroque, the magical and the humane in her imagery and relates these to the culture of post-colonial Brazil as well as to the visual language of power and potency in Europe.
By following the progress of her imagination through the various media in which she works, this book reveals the monumentality of Pacheco's vision, and highlights the streams of visual narrative that make her such a unique and imposing figure.
Authors Biography
George Szirtes is a poet, critic and translator who has won various major prizes for his books, the most recent of which are The Budapest File and An English Apocalypse. His original training was as an artist.
Artists Biography
Ana Maria Pacheco is a sculptor, painter and printmaker born in Brazil in 1943. Following Degrees in both Art and Music she taught and lectured for several years at Universities in Goias before coming to England on a British Council Scholarship to the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Since 1973 she has lived and worked in England.
Following two significant group exhibitions - the ICA in 1980 (Women's Images of Men) and the Hayward Annual Drawing Show in 1982 - her first important one person show took place at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, in 1983. Since 1983 she has exhibited widely, two UK tours taking her work to a number of venues including the Camden Arts Centre, London and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
