Bøker av N. P. James

Transcripts of recorded conversations with sculptors made between 1989 and 2010. Includes: Arman; Elspeth Barratt; Stuart Brisley; Anthony Caro; John Cobb; Phillip King; John Latham; David Nash; Gloria Ortega; Eduardo Paolozzi; Peter Randall-Page; Yinka Shonibare CBE; James Turrell; Rachel Whiteread; Alison Wilding; Richard Wilson. Cv/VAR 124 publishes an interview recorded in 2010 with Mat Collishaw, first published in Interviews-Artists Volume Three, explores the range of his work, from 'zoetropes', animated models exhibited at the Freud Museum and installed at the Victoria and Albert museum, to photo-works and projections, with the artist's original interventions in the natural world that fuse histories, desires and dreams. This edition includes studies of Nam June Paik abd other essays on contemporary art.

For his new cityscapes N.P.James made an artistic investigation of Paris, walking through the various districts of Opera, St.Lazare, Republic, Montmartre, Montparnasse, Le Marais, St. Denis and St.Germain. His sketchbook records aspects of the streets, buildings, courtyards and monuments.

Descriptions of human physiology are illustrated with ninety panel paintings by N.P.James ROI, which construct a detailed metaphor for the body. A viscous surface of pulped and washed colour interprets the intricate framework of muscles, arteries, bone and soft tissue, all infused with an internal dynamic of potent nervous energy.

The seventh in Cv's series of Barnaby's Relocation Guides explores the county of Cumbria. Fell walks, visitor destinations. Illustrated with colour photographs and route maps.