{"product_id":"melancholy-objects-lenard-smith","title":"Melancholy Objects, Lenard Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLast copy is reduced in price due to minor damage on the dust jacket.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s no mistake that \u003c\/span\u003eLenard Smith\u003cspan\u003e’s new book borrows its title from Susan Sontag’s 1977 essay of the same name. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMelancholy Objects\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e – the Los Angeles-based artist’s first publication for Perimeter Editions – grounds the photographic endeavour in the surreal, the introspective, and the referential. Working in the tradition of the ragpicker, Smith sifts through personal and found objects to create formal compositions that gently intersect sculpture with the still life, broaching new purposes and hierarchies, and pulsing with a sense of humour, play, and solemnity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSmith’s broader career has taken a similarly unconventional footing. While his photographic work has skirted elements of documentary, landscape, still life, portraiture, and editorial, it has never quite fallen for their traps. His studio practice – which also spans sculpture, painting, sound, film, and bookmaking – further informs his photographic output. His \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMelancholy Objects\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e feel like a perfect confluence for these strands.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith the trace of the artist’s hand ever present, these images of balancing, totemic postures and surreal design configurations ignite memories that confront both the familiar and the unknown. Analog references emerge, only to collapse into new compositions and perspectives. Unlikely materials and choreographies elicit a furrow or a smirk. While history and function inspire each photograph, it is the imagination that subverts and ungrounds them. In the spirit of Dadaism, we’re left happily adrift in their presence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003ePublished by Perimeter Books\u003cbr\u003eFirst Edition of 500\u003cbr\u003eSoftcover\u003cbr\u003e110 pages \u003cbr\u003e210 x 125 mm\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781922545121\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Perimeter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44047116304598,"sku":"MOLS01","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2538\/3478\/products\/MelancholyObjectsLenardSmith.heic?v=1677511491","url":"https:\/\/www.thelibraryproject.ie\/it\/products\/melancholy-objects-lenard-smith","provider":"The Library Project","version":"1.0","type":"link"}