{"product_id":"bill-henson-sic-transit","title":"Bill Henson — Sic Transit","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBill Henson’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003eSic Transit\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epresents the panorama of a world shadowed by the images and memories of the past. Two boys wrestle like an act of love, an act of wonder. A face that could be the face of a girl or boy looms in the bewilderment of passion or preoccupation. Bodies tussle and are at peace. There is an effortless knowledge of the body as window of the soul but also a sense of the inscrutable, of that which\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is beyond time, though at every point time is echoed in immemorial gesture as an adolescent looks at his foot, as a temple beckons and glows in soft light, as a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\"\u003eremembrance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e of other \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\"\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\"\u003eolder\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ways of imagining. This is an art of shadows and whispers and things known far off. It is a set of images haunted by the spectres of the past\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\"\u003eeven as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eit uses the grammar of the body finding \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\"\u003eits\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e way in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edarkness and touches of light\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\"\u003eIt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an art full o\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ef the distanced golden glow of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe classical and especially the Roman past which also pays homage to\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e the sublimity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e of Rembrandt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\"\u003eProdigal Son\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\"\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand the depth of compassion it radiates. But in this sequence of photographs Henson reveals the world \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof ways in which history is shaded and comes to fade. And so it passes: Henson captures the glory of the world of images as it does. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt also honors the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eways in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e which\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e every novice’s discovery traces an ancient ritual and notates an enduring dream. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Peter Craven\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wolf Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53921776468311,"sku":"BOO 4121 U","price":200.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0503\/4914\/6272\/files\/4121-1.jpg?v=1782994166","url":"https:\/\/www.wolf-books.com\/products\/bill-henson-sic-transit","provider":"Wolf Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}