{"id":1618,"date":"2017-04-27T22:50:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T21:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerusalempress.co.uk\/?page_id=1618"},"modified":"2026-01-16T10:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:27:25","slug":"the-static-alignments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jerusalempress.co.uk\/?page_id=1618","title":{"rendered":"The Static Alignments"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Deluxe and First Hardback Edition<\/i>\u00a0sold out<\/i><\/b>. \u00a0
<\/i><\/span>Due to demand this book is being republished as a revised paperback.
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<\/strong><\/i><\/span>Featuring Fragmentum<\/b>, written by AOS, here are the principles underlying his art.\u00a0
<\/span>Detailed notes transcribed by Frank Letchford from his advanced lessons in portraiture, this is an indispensable resource<\/em> for anyone wishing to gain an intimate understanding of Spare’s work practice. Letchford studied the myriad principles underlying Spare\u2019s rich and varied art production. Spare’s preferred materials and theories on how best to produce drawings by exploiting photography are complemented by art-historical wisdom.
Spare\u2019s devotion to geometry<\/em> is revealed by William Wallace in relation to D\u00fcrer, the Occult, and to Spare\u2019s monogram, early drawings, and late aphorisms. Richly illustrated throughout with as yet unseen works and abundantly annotated with endnotes and Appendix.<\/em><\/p>\n

Featuring<\/strong><\/span>
<\/em>\u2013 Unprecedented ingress into Spare\u2019s method, principles of teaching, pearls of wisdom on art history.
\u2013 Unpublished artworks and preparatory sketches, including a lavish set of large-scale instructions detailing Spare’s notion of evolutionary figuration.
\u2013 Instructional sketches on the construction of the human head and body and the means for their creative distortion.
\u2013 Letchford\u2019s copious Tuition Notes (anatomy for portraiture, life-study, materials, framing, and more). Advice on pastels and watercolour, and how to construct a landscape composition.
\u2013 A detailed survey of the categories of the artist\u2019s work from Cockney Portraits to Automatic drawings.
\u2013 Timeline and preparatory notes for the 1952 Tavern Exhibition.
\u2013 An insightful Introduction by Michael Staley.
\u2013 Historical analysis by Dr Wallace puts into context Spare\u2019s early education which fed the principles he later deployed when teaching his students.
\u2013 Afterword by Stephen Pochin examining the life-long appropriation of photographic sources by Spare; with some surprising examples.<\/p>\n

REVISED Paperback Edition \u2013 2026
<\/span><\/strong>400 copies. 336 pages, 156x234mm. Litho on Munken, Soft-bound jacket with end-flaps. 44 colour plates and 277 black & white images in the text. \u00a323<\/strong>+p&p<\/p>\n

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