6/9/2023 Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection... by Leanne ShaptonRead Now![]() ![]() A fascinating, remarkable, beautiful book.” -Nick Laird Her essay-poem on Diana and cars is as elegant and resonant as her pictures. By restricting herself to the narrowest of subject matters she has made something utterly new. ![]() Ballard, Leanne takes us on a journey into cars and iconography and the spirit of ecstasy.” -Neil Gaiman “A strange and evocative poem, nesting in a sequence of paintings, both the art and the words examining Diana having her photograph taken getting out of cars - each path taking us inevitably to the final car ride. “Leanne Shapton is one of the most broadly creative and gifted people at work today a true artist, both visual and verbal.” -David Rakoff It is also an obsessive and loving collection of studies, abstracted and haunting. In Cars: On Diana is about photography, fidelity, facsimile and where to hold the beheld. ![]() A visual essay, a poem, a study of Princess Diana, image, celebrity and identity.Īrtist and writer Leanne Shapton has painted Princess Diana from the hundreds of photographs of her getting out of cars, examining her iconography and meaning in gesture and form. ![]()
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