{"title":"Art Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese are some art books that we really love!\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-plains-from-memory","title":"THE PLAINS, FROM MEMORY by Robert Adams","description":"\u003ch3 class=\"p1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Plains, From Memory\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRobert Adams \u003cbr\u003eSteidl \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eHardback \/ Clothbound\u003cbr\u003eEdited by Joshua Chuang\u003cbr\u003e56 pages, 22 images\u003cbr\u003e26.5 x 28 cm\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-3-96999-017-9\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn the spring of 2020, as he watched his country tested, Robert Adams discovered in his garage a small plank of wood that contained a landscape. This led to the creation, during a difficult time, of an unexpected series of works that drew upon memories of a stillness and a grandeur he had forgotten about. 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He was a seminal pioneer of dub, an electronic subgenre of reggae that uses sampling, looping, remixing, reverb and echoes to create new songs as well as rework  and appropriate pre-recorded songs and tracks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eBlack Ark Studios was one of the cradles of dub. It’s also where Lee “Scratch” Perry’s musical approach found an enduring visual counterpart in the form of continuously evolving mural paintings and drawings  as well as shape-shifting assemblages of records, instruments, found objects, posters, newspaper and magazine clippings, and appropriated books. 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