Mark Wallinger author-brenda-and-robert-vale and the extraordinary new talent

and the extraordinary new talent that is emerging from creative hubs

Asia had bustling commercial and imperial centres such as Mohenjo-daro and Xianyang

has exerted a unique hold on the popular imagination ever since its discovery by Howard Carter in 1922

Generously illustrated throughout with photographs

Illustrated with spectacular photographs of the places

Mark Wallinger author-brenda-and-robert-vale and the extraordinary new talentSince his earliest works of the mid 1980s, Wallinger has become known as an artist who never repeats himself, and his art driven by passions including sport, history, politics, science and poetry has ranged from meticulous paintings of racehorses to the first public statue of Jesus Christ in England since the Reformation. As the writer Martin Herbert demonstrates, however, certain themes and strategies thread through this dizzyingly diverse body of