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Moderation Be Damned
128 pages, Paperback
Published May 1, 2005
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May 1, 2014
This is a fantastic, beautifully produced book about the extraordinarily talented writer and artist Edith Simon. I've got no artistic expertise and I didn't know much about her, but this is a book that will appeal to lay people and experts alike.
Simon's motto, "Moderation be damned," provides the book's title. It includes a lively, touching, enlightening biography by Edith Simon's sister, Inge Goodwin, as well as Simon's own writing and an assessment of her art by the critic Giles Sutherland.
The book is an absolute pleasure to look at as well as to read, showing her incredible artistic versatility, including her extraordinary "scalpel paintings". This was a technique she devised herself, cutting through layers of differently coloured sheets of paper to produce intricate, striking images and amazing likenesses.
She also created rope sculptures, including one of a horse, made from a single length of rope, 150 yards long. Confronted with the logistical problem of transporting it from her studio to an exhibition, she thought of the obvious solution - a horse box! The book's back cover is a stunning fish-eye portrait of Simon working her studio, taken by her daughter, Antonia Reeve, which beautifully captures her strength, humour and determination.
Simon's motto, "Moderation be damned," provides the book's title. It includes a lively, touching, enlightening biography by Edith Simon's sister, Inge Goodwin, as well as Simon's own writing and an assessment of her art by the critic Giles Sutherland.
The book is an absolute pleasure to look at as well as to read, showing her incredible artistic versatility, including her extraordinary "scalpel paintings". This was a technique she devised herself, cutting through layers of differently coloured sheets of paper to produce intricate, striking images and amazing likenesses.
She also created rope sculptures, including one of a horse, made from a single length of rope, 150 yards long. Confronted with the logistical problem of transporting it from her studio to an exhibition, she thought of the obvious solution - a horse box! The book's back cover is a stunning fish-eye portrait of Simon working her studio, taken by her daughter, Antonia Reeve, which beautifully captures her strength, humour and determination.
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