{"product_id":"9781861713100","title":"Kurt Jackson: Painting- Sea-Sky-Light-Land-Cornwall","description":"KURT JACKSON\u003cp\u003eA new book about the British landscape painter Kurt Jackson (b. 1961). \u003cbr\u003eThis new edition includes a text which has been completely updated. There are also many new illustrations. including photographs taken for this new edition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEXTRACT FROM CHAPTER 4: \u003cbr\u003eOne of Kurt Jackson's appealing concepts is that the ocean is one of the last true wildernesses left on the planet. It's an idea that I found very interesting when he explained it to me when we first met in St Just. I took it that he meant a spiritual as well as an ecological or natural wilderness. Jackson's art can thus be seen as an art that is the border region between humanity and nature, between culture and nature, as well as literally tackling that area - the coast - which is neither land nor sea. \u0026lt;\u003cbr\u003eNote that Kurt Jackson is always facing outwards from the land, and looking towards the ocean, not painting with his back to the sea, and looking towards the land (and notice that the many boats and helicopters and such in this area are left out of the paintings, too). \u003cbr\u003eSo Kurt Jackson's Porth series, about Priest Cove, and all of his sea paintings, are very important in his art in articulating this idea of the ocean as the last wilderness. 'Have you ever wondered what's out there?' is a question that Jackson asks (it's the title of one of his major paintings, too - the centrepiece of the Porth series). \u003cbr\u003eKurt Jackson has repeated the question over a number of related works: the title of two 2004 pieces is The Last Wilderness In Western Europe? This was painted on Jura (in Scotland), and both pictures are consciously emptied of human marks - just empty moorland and a delicate blue sky. An earlier picture, part of the Cape series, was entitled Do You Ever Wonder What's Out There? (1999) - an unusual composition in the Jackson oeuvre which puts the horizon very high, and focusses on the dark blue ocean flecked with white spray. \u003cbr\u003eKurt Jackson isn't that interested in many of the connotations of the ocean - the moon, time, goddesses, rebirth (though moons do appear in his art from time to time). He's not really interested in religious or pagan or magical symbols in that way. And he's not that interested in shipping, fishing, and all things maritime, like J.M.W. Turner was. \u003cbr\u003eBut when Kurt Jackson asks a question like 'have you ever wondered what's out there?', and considers the sea as one of the last wildernesses, that alters the interpretation of his sea paintings. It doesn't apply to all of them, though: in plenty of paintings (and not only the smaller or more modest ones), Jackson is not thinking in terms of big themes. But when he titles a painting Have You Ever Wondered What's Out There? (and writes the title in big letters across the painting), it's clearly intended to resonate in the viewer at a deeper level. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFully illustrated, with a revised text. Bibliography and notes. ISBN 9781861713100. \u003cbr\u003eAlso available in hardback. \u003cbr\u003ewww.crmoon.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eREVIEWS ON AMAZON: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA well- written and thoughtful book. \u003cbr\u003e*\u003cbr\u003eSo useful to gain such insight into an artist's life and inspirations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crescent Moon Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043488415984,"sku":"9781861713100","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781861713100_p0.jpg?v=1763600835","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781861713100","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}