Swimming Studies is a wonderful, unique book from the writer and artist Leanne Shapton, author of Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry, with her artwork.
As a teenager, Leanne Shapton trained for the Olympic swimming trials; now an artist, she is still drawn inexorably to swimming, in pools and on beaches across the world. What do you with an all-absorbing activity once it's past its relevance, and yet you can't quite give it up? Is it possible to find a new purpose for its rigours and focus?
Swimming Studies is an original, meditative work that explores what it is like to move from a world of competition and discipline to one of recreation and introspection. Giving a fascinating glimpse into the private realms of swimming, and drawing, Shapton tells an intimate story of suburban adolescence, family ties, and the solitary underwater moments that now ground her artistic habits.
'Whenever I come across something of Leanne Shapton's, I feel like I have found a hidden treasure' Amy Sedaris
- ISBN10 1846144949
- ISBN13 9781846144943
- Publish Date 26 July 2012
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 December 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Particular Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 336
- Language English