Swimming Studies |
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| Author:
| Shapton, Leanne |
| ISBN: | 978-1-84614-494-3 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2012 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books, Limited
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| Imprint: | Particular Books |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $29.99 |
Book Description:
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As a teenager, Leanne Shapton trained for the Olympic swimming trials; now an artist, she is still drawn inexorably to swimming, in pools and on beaches across the world. What do you with an all-absorbing activity once it's past its relevance, and yet you can't quite give it up? Is it possible to find a new purpose for its rigors and focus? Swimming Studiesis an original, meditative work that explores what it is like to move from a world of competition and...
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As a teenager, Leanne Shapton trained for the Olympic swimming trials; now an artist, she is still drawn inexorably to swimming, in pools and on beaches across the world. What do you with an all-absorbing activity once it's past its relevance, and yet you can't quite give it up? Is it possible to find a new purpose for its rigors and focus?
Swimming Studiesis an original, meditative work that explores what it is like to move from a world of competition and discipline to one of recreation and introspection. Giving a fascinating glimpse into the private realms of swimming, and drawing, Shapton tells an intimate story of suburban adolescence, family ties, and the solitary underwater moments that now ground her artistic habits.
'Whenever I come across something of Leanne Shapton's, I feel like I have found a hidden treasure.' Amy Sedaris