Helen Chadwick. Constructing identities between art and architecture

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Highly respected by her peers and hugely influential on the subsequent generation of artists, British artist Helen Chadwick produced a wide-ranging body of work in a variety of media. She also drew upon a panoply of references, from classical Greek through to contemporary architectures, micro-biology, sub-particle physics, and esoteric philosophies. Stephen Walker identifies and explores a consistent range of issues and enduring interests that accompanied and supported Chadwick's realised work, including the relationship between body and space, self and the world; between art and science, the creative self and the creative process. Dismantling and reassembling her thought, Walker here combines a close reading of Chadwick's notebooks and research with broader speculation about their ongoing relevance for artistic and architectural work today.00. List of Illustrations viiiAcknowledgements ixPreface xiIntegration of Sources xvIntroduction: New negotiations 1Part One: the creative process and the creative persona1: the Creative Self2: the Creative Process and 'Total Pattern'Part Two: experience, architecture and identity3: Body and Self4: 'Multi-Stability' and Viewing PositionPart Three: artifice and nature5: the Grotto and Architectural Conceit6: Architecture, the Divinities and the Authority of Science7: 'Viral Architecture' and the Rapprochement of Art and SciencePart Four: theory and practice8: Geometry, 'Stereonomy' and Surface9: the Role of MakingConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex