{"product_id":"very-pictorial-conceptual-art-robert-cumming","title":"VERY PICTORIAL CONCEPTUAL ART - Robert Cumming","description":"\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: value-regular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.933279991149902px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eRobert Cumming was an American artist who defied easy classification. A painter, sculptor, photographer, and printmaker he is perhaps best known for his painstakingly constructed conceptual photographs. This new publication \u003cspan class=\"il\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003eedited\u003c\/span\u003e by David \u003cspan class=\"il\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003eCampany\u003c\/span\u003e explores Cumming’s highly influential photographic works from the 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: value-regular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.933279991149902px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"arial, sans-serif\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003eCumming first came to photography in the 1960s as a means of photographing his sculptural works, but a found that at a certain point, he was happier with the photographs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003e than he was with the sculptures themselves. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003eCumming would go on to produce an archive of immaculate photographs of functional-looking yet perplexing constructions with an 8x10” camera from his Los Angeles studio. Each entices the viewer to look ever deeper into the image to define its elusive intention. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: value-regular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.933279991149902px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003e'Robert Cumming was an artist so self-possessed, so unlike any other, and so consumed by his own unique set of concerns, that what he made could have come only from him. There is an entire universe of thinking, making and picturing that is pure Robert Cumming'.\u003c\/em\u003e - David Campany  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: value-regular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.933279991149902px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePages — 148\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: value-regular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.933279991149902px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDetails — Hard Back \/ Silk screened \/ Multiple gate folds \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: value-regular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.933279991149902px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSize — 295x235mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Stanley\/Barker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45334160408794,"sku":"","price":80.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0526\/0371\/5780\/files\/1_2048x2048_2f177230-bb3e-44d7-96ea-aec9868cc0f5.jpg?v=1717524735","url":"https:\/\/studio-argentique.myshopify.com\/fr\/products\/very-pictorial-conceptual-art-robert-cumming","provider":"Studio Argentique","version":"1.0","type":"link"}