{"product_id":"in-cars-on-diana-leanne-shapton-9781649698889","title":"In Cars: On Diana","description":"\u003cp\u003eA visual essay, a poem, a study of Princess Diana, image, celebrity and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArtist and writer Leanne Shapton has painted Princess Diana from the hundreds of photographs of her getting out of cars, examining her iconography and meaning in gesture and form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Cars: On Diana is about photography, celebrity, identity, facsimile, and where to hold the beheld. It is also an obsessive and loving collection of studies, abstracted and haunting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Leanne Shapton is one of the most broadly creative and gifted people at work today; a true artist, both visual and verbal.' - David Rakoff\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Leanne Shapton writes with such curiosity ruefulness intelligence and grace.' - Sheila Heti \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A strange and evocative poem, nesting in a sequence of paintings, both the art and the words examining Diana having her photograph taken getting out of cars - each path taking us inevitably to the final car ride. Like a gentler, kinder, J. G. Ballard, Leanne takes us on a journey into cars and iconography and the spirit of ecstasy.' - Neil Gaiman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Shapton is a wonder. By restricting herself to the narrowest of subject matters she has made something utterly new. Her essay-poem on Diana and cars is as elegant and resonant as her pictures. A fascinating, remarkable, beautiful book.' - Nick Laird\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Through murk and blur, Shapton sucks the color from the too-familiar shapes and surfaces photographic images yield. She amplifies the overexposed surfaces we use to claim ownership of self and others; embedding us in photography's vanishing games.' - Taryn Simon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'In Cars is both a silent movie\/flipbook and an essay\/poem. Its major theme is Diana, but it identifies something specific and uncanny and universal: the pathos of glamour the lack of sovereignty that's encoded in our paparazzi images of celebrity women.' - Adam Thirlwell\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leanne Shapton","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43174118654195,"sku":"9781649698889","price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781649698889.jpg?v=1662063025","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/in-cars-on-diana-leanne-shapton-9781649698889","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}