{"product_id":"christiane-baumgartner-another-country-9783777430836","title":"Christiane Baumgartner: Another Country","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristiane Baumgartner: Another Country  complements the artist’s first major M useum exhibition in the U.S. and offers an in - depth  introduction to the artist’s work at mid - career.  Baumgartner is best known for monumental  woodcuts, handcarved prints that literally and  conceptually expand the traditional boundaries  of the medium beyond expectation. Leipzig - based artist Christiane Baumgartner (b.  1967) works at the  intersection of old and new  media to expand the conceptual and technical  capacities of printmaking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sourcing images from cinema and TV or from her  own photographs and videos, she hand - carves  woodcuts that defy convention and expectation.  Often monumental in scale or undertaken in  large series, the work is about speed and  transmission, about human sight and its elusive  capture, about cultural memory and modes of  representation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Essays contextualise the work in relation to  German printmaking and the Leipzig school; an interview with the artist surveys her  praxis at mid - career.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hirmer Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53199590130007,"sku":"9783777430836","price":23.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/christiane-baumgartner-another-country-9783777430836","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}