This is the first book to present a full account of Adnan's fascinating life and work. Tackling the complexities of her subject with skill and insight, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie unpacks Adnan's multi-layered career to capture the full scope of her artistic endeavours and impressive achievements.
'Etel Adnan's vivid and stark paintings explore elemental landscapes. Her oeuvre is born of a unique sense of place and displacement, and both infuse her paintings. Her art will appear to be both concrete and abstract, and might represent presence, or the presence of lost objects. As both a poet and a painter, Etel Adnan seeks to establish languages that entail the visual, say, fusing "son" and "sun". Her imagination is phenomenal.'
