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Thomas Joshua Cooper. True [exhibition catalogue]

The images by Thomas Joshua Cooper featured in this catalogue are of exceptional intensity. The black-and-white photos were taken on Cooper’s travels around the edges of the Atlantic Ocean, mainly in the north and south polar regions.

In an essay included in the catalogue, Ben Tufnell, curator of the Haunch of Venison gallery, writes that Cooper’s project ‘is an ambitious conceptual art project mapping the multi-faceted and layered intersections of geological, geographical and human history. As such it must be understood in the context of Land and Conceptual Art’.

The pages of this catalogue showcase the work of an artist who succeeds in capturing unsettling landscapes with his camera, evoking the fear and curiosity we experience in the face of the unknown.

The original catalogue, an impeccable work, is complemented by an offprint in Spanish, published by the CDAN.

Technical data:

• Thomas Joshua Cooper : True [exhibition catalogue]. Texts by David Bellingham and Ben Tufnell. London : Haunch of Venison, 2009. 177 pages with black-and-white illustrations. Written in English. Includes a 32-page offprint in Spanish, published by the CDAN, Centro de Arte y Naturaleza of the Beulas Foundation in Huesca in 2010.

More information:

• The book is available from INDOC, the CDAN’s Art and Nature Documentation Centre.

• The catalogue is on sale at the CDAN and specialised bookshops.

• The reference for this publication can be consulted at the CDAN’s Publications webpage.

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