{"product_id":"roberta-b-marks","title":"Roberta B. Marks - Works and Words: A Personal Anthology","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first monograph on artist Roberta B. Marks explores her collages and constructions, which focus on the themes of memory, time, and transcendence through a feminist and Buddhist perspective.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarks creates constructions that have an intimacy to them and at the same time contain entire worlds of feeling and memory. Each is a vignette--a narrative of a personal nature. She transforms a range of objects and materials, often of mundane and humble origin, into eloquent and highly personal forms of self-\u003cbr\u003eexpression. Marks's work speaks to the human impulse to collect, preserve, and immortalize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer pieces are intuitive and instinctual, exuding a sense of mystery. The viewer enters into an intensely private realm, yet the themes are universal--loss, longing, old age, death, repression, and liberation--thus evoking a feeling of familiarity. A practicing Buddhist, Marks achieves her clarity through daily meditation. She has written \"when constructing a work, I pare it down to the essence--the minimal. Each chosen object represents years of seeing with acute awareness.\" Marks's writings accompany a selection of approximately 200 of her most evocative works.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51167804260640,"sku":"9780847866977","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780847866977.jpg?v=1769743255","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/roberta-b-marks","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}