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The beautiful book `A Hidden Alchemy' maps the journey of artist craftsman Kevin Coates through a life of craftsmanship, music, geometry, literature and philosophy. His work has influenced a generation through his exhibitions and teaching at the Royal College of Art. Roy Strong, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, explains in the book's introduction that one of the delights of working at the V&A was the discovery of the renaissance in the world of Applied Arts in Great Britain. 'I cannot tell you the excitement of meeting contemporary creators, of being either to exhibit or acquire works by them for the collection. Kevin Coates was a man whose work fascinated me for its complexity, astonishing technical virtuosity, sophistication of allusion, and unashamed richness of a kind which would have delighted a Medici Grand Duke,' Strong writes. 'I am fortunate enough to have and wear one of Kevin's jewels, a lapel brooch made by him in memory of my late wife, the designer Julia Trevelyan Oman. So I have the knowledge and experience of living with a jewel which has power and presence and in a sense a life of its own. It is recondite, meant to be read by the initiated but a closed book to ignorant eyes,' Strong continues. The book opens our eyes to the cornerstones of Coates' philosophies, his love of music and the influence of Mozart. The `Mozart Jewels' chapter replicates a lecture given by Coates at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, explaining his interaction with the opera The Magic Flute. An interview, with Francoise Carli on the Lido Beach, Venice, called Fragments: Pages stolen from a book of Time, investigates his use of found objects from the Lido Beach which include fragments of household china and 16th and 17th century shards of maiolica (fine earthenware with coloured decorated on an opaque white tin glaze), washed up from the lagoon where they were dumped as sea-defence ballast long ago. A Hidden Alchemy, sumptuously bound and produced with a full complement of illustrations of Coates' work, is a superb insight into the mind of a great artist craftsman. --The Goldsmith Magazine, No. 318, July 2008
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Publisher : Arnoldsche
Publication date : 1 May 2008
Edition : illustrated edition
Language : English
Print length : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 3897902842
ISBN-13 : 978-3897902848
Item weight : 2.09 kg
Dimensions : 22.78 x 2.67 x 32.72 cm
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