Book details:
Art • Photography • Literary Nonfiction
Softcover, European fold
184 pages, 80 duotone plates • 8.5 in x 1.375 in
ISBN 978-1-7333864-2-5
Publication Date: 4/25/2020
Book Design: Nola Burger
About the Author:
Born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1960, Sheila Newbery is a San Francisco Bay Area photographer who works with traditional printing techniques, including the platinum-palladium method. She studied art history at Trinity College and English literature at Princeton University. READ MORE…
LOS CAPRICHOS : AFTER GOYA
by Sheila Newbery
Epigraph by Raúl Quintanilla Armijo. Interview with the artist by Larissa Archer.
LOS CAPRICHOS: AFTER GOYA is an artist's book of palladium prints inspired by Francisco Goya's album of the same name, a series of eighty aquatint etchings he offered for sale directly to the Madrid public in 1799. Goya conceived of his images as a series of suenõs—dreams—through which he could explore the foibles of his world with barbed impunity. This collection takes up the artist's mordant spirit with a photographic (and digital) twist: Newbery turns the lens on the phosphorescent dreamscapes that flow through our sundry devices, drawing pointed connections between our photographic life, miniaturized and ubiquitous, and its deeper roots in Western printmaking.
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Praises, Reviews & Interviews:
“Where Goya wavered about the power of reason over his wild world of dreams . . . these Caprichos entangle us in a post-internet reality: their dark allure draws us in. From this shimmering ether, they seem to say, there is no escape.”