Theorem
Antonia Contro
(Artist)
Description
Theorem
Elizabeth Bradfield, author
Antonia Contro, artist
In Theorem, a collaboration by poet Elizabeth Bradfield and artist Antonia Contro, spare images, distilled text, and the resonant space between investigate the legacy of secrets acquired in childhood and held through a life. Part visual interrogation of shapes and forms, part lyrical bewilderment at the interface of memory and geometry, Theorem charts a luminous path of self-discovery that unsettles and upends. Theorem's collaboration opens possibilities beyond the simple life-changing epiphany. As John Yau writes, "The revelation is not in arriving at a destination but in beginning to map the journey, as well as in recognizing that one's perspective of past events changes as time goes by. This is the enigma of being alive and alert. This is what Theorem offers the willing reader---a place to return to in order to set out again and see what has changed." Using tropes drawn from math and science in both text and images, Theorem grapples again and again with how to find certainty and clarity within the chaos of lived experience.
Product Details
| Publisher | Poetry Northwest Editions |
| Publish Date | November 01, 2020 |
| Pages | 96 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781949166026 |
| Dimensions | 8.0 X 8.0 X 0.3 inches | 0.5 pounds |
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Reviews
Books about self-discovery often culminate in a revelation, which readers may find temporarily satisfying.
But what happens after that? In Theorem, Bradfield's words and Contro's images open up another possibility.
The revelation is not in arriving at a destination but in beginning to map the journey, as well as in recognizing that one's perspective of past events changes as time goes by. This is the enigma of being alive and alert. This is
what Theorem offers the willing reader --a place to return to in order to set out again and see what has changed.
-- JOHN YAU, POET, CRITIC, AND CURATOR
Consummate artists with unquestionable command of their separate vocabularies, Bradfield and Contro's barrier-free interplay of words and images -- rigorous, spare, redolent -- provokes associations, connected yet never literal, accessible but fluid.
-- PHILIP YENAWINE, ART EDUCATOR AND WRITER
Theorem is more than a beautiful book -- it is also the opportunity to experience a profound and generous collaboration between an artist and a writer. Images and words reference each other in nuanced ways, creating pathways of discovery that work both backwards and forward across the span of pages.
--MARTHA TEDESCHI, DIRECTOR OF THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS
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