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Book on artist Diane Victor offers insights into what is a disturbing, gripping and ultimately revelatory body of work
Over the holiday period I had the somewhat grim but also transcendent pleasure of paging slowly through Diane Victor: Prints, Drawings, Smoke.
This beautiful book, produced by French publisher Mare & Martin, presents a broad selection of Victor’s work from the past three decades, in addition to some representative earlier pieces. Essays by Renaud Faroux and Karen von Veh, along with a conversation between the artist and Francis van der Riet (director of Atelier le Grand Village, the studio where Victor has created a number of her lithographic prints) offer keen insights into what is a disturbing, gripping and ultimately revelatory body of work. ..
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