The Triptych Series: Vol. 2, No. 6, Melinda Camber Porter Archive of Creative Works - Hardcover

Melinda Camber Porter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1942231393 ISBN 13: 9781942231394

Publisher: Blake Press

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About the Author

Melinda Camber Porter was born in London and graduated from Oxford University with a First Class Honors degree in Modern Languages. She began her writing career in Paris as a cultural correspondent for The Times of London. French culture is the subject of her book Through Parisian Eyes (published by Oxford University Press), which the Boston Globe describes as "a particularly readable and brilliantly and uniquely compiled collection." Her novel Badlands, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, was set on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and acclaimed by Louis Malle, who said: "better than a novel, it reads like a fierce poem, with a devastating effect on our self-esteem," and by Publishers Weekly, which called it, "a novel of startling, dreamlike lyricism." A traveling USA art exhibition celebrating Camber Porter's paintings (1993-1997), curated by the late Leo Castelli. Peter Trippi, Editor of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine said: "In our era of slickly produced images, teeming with messages rather than feelings, Camber Porter's art strikes a distinctive balance between the achingly personal and the aesthetically beautiful. This equilibrium has developed, at least in part, through her discerning openness to a range of historical mentors, William Blake being the figure she has admired most passionately," and "not surprisingly Camber Porter finds particular pleasure in Gauguin's notebooks, which erase the boundaries between image and word." Camber Porter's paintings have also served as the primary inspiration and as backdrops for her musical theatrical works: Night Angel, with music by Carman Moore, and Journey to Benares, with music, by Elizabeth Swados. Robin Hamlyn, noted world expert on William Blake and senior curator of Tate Britain's Blake and Turner collections, delivered a lecture and wrote a book on Ms. Porter's watercolors entitled, William Blake Illuminates the Works of Melinda Camber Porter. Mr. Hamlyn writes about Ms. Porter, "I believe that all great art is, in its essence, defined by fearlessness. Both Melinda Camber Porter's and William Blake's works exemplify and illuminate the fearlessness that is part of the very essence of all great art." Melinda Camber Porter Archive of Creative Works documents the prolific and creative legacy of Camber Porter in volumes of art and literature.

Review

"Compares Melinda Camber Porter's own 'cosmology' to that of Michelangelo, whose conflation of the spiritual and the material, the chaste and the sensual, horrified and aroused his contemporaries even as it communicated his highly personal understanding of God, man and their interrelationship." Peter Trippi, Editor of Fine Art Connoisseur "Melinda Camber Porter is a watercolorist [in addition to oils], and that is a very difficult medium to handle. With oil it's easy to correct things or just go over it, but with watercolor, once you have done it, you have done it." Robin Hamlyn, Senior Curator of William Blake at Tate Britain "As an artist, Melinda Camber Porter's use of line and form is completely original. Her artwork could be defined as 'figurative abstraction', because she pioneers new territory in both the abstract and figurative domains. Her extraordinary use of color would inspire a composer. Melinda Camber Porter faithfully pursued her own 'cosmology, ' which was constantly evolving, evolving, evolving." Walter Wickiser, New York Gallery Owner

Edition details

• Publisher: Blake Press
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1942231393
• ISBN 13: 9781942231394
• Binding: Hardcover