{"product_id":"william-eggleston-the-outlands-selected-works-paperback","title":"William Eggleston: The Outlands: Selected Works - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam Eggleston\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eWilliam Eggleston\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eRachel Kushner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA selection of nearly one hundred previously unseen images from the 1960s and 1970s by the pioneer of color photography, William Eggleston.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Outlands\u003c\/i\u003e, a series of photographs taken by Eggleston between 1969 and 1974, establishes the groundbreaking visual themes and lexicon that the artist would continue to develop for decades to come. The work offers a journey through the mythic and evolving American South, seen through the artist's lens: vibrant colors and a profound sense of nostalgia echo throughout Eggleston's breathtaking oeuvre. His motifs of signage, cars, and roadside scenes create an iconography of American vistas that inspired a generation of photographers. With its in-depth selection of unforgettable images--a wood-paneled station wagon, doors flung open, parked in an expansive rural setting; the artist's grandmother in the moody interior of their family's Sumner, Mississippi home--\u003ci\u003eThe Outland\u003c\/i\u003es is emblematic of Eggleston's dynamic, experimental practice. The breadth of work reenergizes his iconic landscapes and forms a new perspective of the American South in transition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAccompanying the ninety brilliant Kodachrome images and details, a literary, fictional text by the critically acclaimed author Rachel Kushner imagines a story of hitchhikers trekking through the Deep South. New scholarship by Robert Slifkin reframes the art-historical significance of Eggleston's oeuvre, proposing affinities with work by Marcel Duchamp, Dan Graham, Jasper Johns, and Robert Smithson. A foreword by William Eggleston III offers important insights into the process of selecting and sequencing this series of images.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of nearly six decades, William Eggleston has established a singular pictorial style that deftly combines vernacular subject matter with an innate and sophisticated understanding of color, form, and composition. His photographs transform the ordinary into distinctive, poetic images that eschew fixed meaning. His 1976 solo exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by John Szarkowski, marked one of the first presentations of color photography at the museum. Although initially criticized for its unfamiliar approach, the show and its accompanying catalogue, \u003ci\u003eWilliam Eggleston's Guide\u003c\/i\u003e, heralded an important moment in the medium's acceptance within the art-historical canon, and it solidified the artist's position as one of its foremost practitioners to date. Eggleston's work continues to exert an influence on contemporary visual culture at large. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Kushner\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Mars Room\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Flamethrowers\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTelex from Cuba\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a book of short stories, \u003ci\u003eThe Strange Case of Rachel K\u003c\/i\u003e. Her most recent book, \u003ci\u003eThe Hard Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e, offers twenty years of essays on politics, art, and culture. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. Her books have been translated into twenty-six languages. Her fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and her essays in \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Los Angeles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRobert Slifkin is a professor of fine arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where he teaches classes on modern and contemporary art and photography. He is the author of The New Monuments and the End of Man: U.S. Sculpture Between War and Peace, 1945-1975 and Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art, which was awarded the Phillips Book Prize. His essays and reviews have appeared in such journals as American Art, Artforum, The Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Burlington Magazine, October, Oxford Art Journal, and Racquet.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 14.7 x 11 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 06, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766111273248,"sku":"9781644230770","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/54b655b081d83e691b8e9687687cda31.webp?v=1780285721","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/william-eggleston-the-outlands-selected-works-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}