{"product_id":"advice-for-young-artists-9781915743763","title":"Advice for Young Artists","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe latest introspective project from esteemed photographer Alec Soth collates still lifes, lyrical portraits, and fragmented quotes and mottos inspired by his visits to undergraduate art programmes across the US.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 2022 and 2024, Alec Soth visited twenty-five undergraduate art programmes across the United States. \u003ci\u003eAdvice for Young Artists \u003c\/i\u003ecomprises work he made there. Its title - perhaps like the visits themselves - is misleading: rather than wisdom or guidance, Soth offers an angular and unresolved reflection on artmaking at different stages of life and the relations of photography, time, and ageing. The photographs here range from formal studies evocative of the classroom to more unruly works of self-expression. Ambiguous stagings, found forms, and lyrical portraits are interspersed with gnomic quotes and unfinished credos scrawled on Post-its. Among the students, Soth himself appears at intervals, an uncertain sage in their midst.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by Walker Evans's late Polaroids, this latest body of work reveals a new expansion of Soth's practice and a new vantage, twenty years on from the publication of his first book. Recalling the conceit of \u003ci\u003eBroken Manual\u003c\/i\u003e, it uses an instructional format as a spurious cover for introspection and provocation. As much as a study of the experience of the young artist, this is a reckoning with the prospect of becoming an old one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781915743763\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: MACK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"Alec Soth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48781301547225,"sku":"9781915743763","price":95.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/81G5dX0lshL._SL1500.jpg?v=1780588778","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/advice-for-young-artists-9781915743763","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}