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Helen Marten: Treatise of a Coat: Selected Works on Paper 2019-2025

Helen Marten: Treatise of a Coat: Selected Works on Paper 2019-2025

Marten, Helen
Agnew, Sam
Rowledge, Jeffrey

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Drawing InstructionIndividual Artists

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ISBN10: 3753309133
ISBN13: 9783753309132
Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag
Published: Mar 10 2026
Pages: 392
Weight: 2.75
Height: 1.20 Width: 8.70 Depth: 10.80
Language: English

An idiosyncratically designed showcase of Marten's paper-based drawing and painting practice

Featuring colored pencil, watercolor, ink, airbrush, acrylic and graphite, alongside other more unusual mediums like sand, silicone or olive oil, this book is a sumptuous visual document of the paper-based drawing and painting practice of British artist Helen Marten (born 1985). Designed as an unruly artist's book, Treatise of a Coat features multiple physical and linguistic folds. Its title conveys the homonymic similarities of the word coat the literal jacket that is unfurled to expose the naked and unruly shame of human forms; the fur or hair of an animal; the verb function of to coat that intentionally builds up visual desire--the acts of lacquering, spreading, enclosing, flooding, directing, or husking that line and color expedite when creating an image. In effect, the constituent materiality of this book is designed with the physicality of making a work on paper in mind.

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