Catalunya | Andalucia
de Marcus Rees Roberts
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The suicide of Walter Benjamin had haunted me for a long time. In my younger years I had been very interested in his work, and even before that I had known Portbou well – passing through it almost every year. Overshadowed by the dark Pyrenees, it is a dismal place, where everything seems dusty and grey, even the sea. It has a vast, echoing Art Deco railway station and very little else, apart from a large and forbidding police headquarters situated just round the corner from The Hotel de Francia. His brief stay in the hotel was initially spent in desperate attempts to get permission, one way or the other, to continue his journey across Spain to Lisbon and then to the USA. At a certain point he would have realized that his efforts were futile: he would either be turned over to the French border police the following morning, or he could commit suicide.
Características y detalles
- Categoría principal: Libros de arte y fotografía
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Características: Apaisado grande, 33×28 cm
N.º de páginas: 70 - Fecha de publicación: dic. 24, 2010
- Palabras clave Marcus Rees Roberts, Pratt Contemporary, Walter Benjamin, Andalucia, Catalunya
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Pratt Contemporary
Sevenoaks, England
Pratt Contemporary Art (founded 1977) is a fine art printing and publishing studio. It has evolved through a multitude of different activities which include sculpture, painting and drawing. Since its inception the core activity has been printmaking and the development of new methods and materials, such as the digital process and the polymer intaglio plate process. These processes have now been fully integrated into the studio as a medium with which to originate work and for use in combination with other techniques - and more recently for the making of fine Artist’s Books.