Exercise of Power: The art of Ana Maria Pacheco, 2001
George Szirtes
Hardback

Exercise of Power traces the career of Ana Maria Pacheco, a remarkable sculptor/painter, from her origins and education in Brazil, through her arrival in England as a British Council scholar at the Slade in 1973, and her development over the next 25 years into one of the outstanding figurative artists of her time, crowned by her residency at the National Gallery, London in 1999.

The book explores the strands of the Baroque, the magical and the humane in Pacheco's imagery and related these to the culture of post-colonial Brazil as well as to the visual language of power and potency in Europe. At a time when most contemporary artists shy away from literature and myth, Pacheco meets them head on and draws sustenance from the fields of reference they provide.

By following the progress of her imagination through the various media in which she works, the book reveals the monumentality of the artist's vision and highlights the streams of visual narrative that makes Pacheco such a unique and imposing figure, capable of uniting the sensibility of South America with that of western Europe.

This book can be purchased along with Sanda Miller and John Hedgecoe's, Ana Maria Pacheco: Dark night of the soul in a limited edition complete with an original print by Ana Maria Pacheco.
26.0 x 22.0 cm (10¼ x 8¾ inches)

Notes:
96 pages
72 illustrations ( 30 in colour)
0 85331 827 1
£37.50