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Softcover. Condizione: Like New. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> In his 1942 essay 'The Myth of Sisyphus', Albert Camus set out his philosophy of the absurd. Examining man's futile search for meaning in the face of an unintelligible world devoid of God, Camus compared the absurdity of man's life with the situation of Sisyphus, the figure from Greek mythology, who was condemned to repeat for eternity the task of pushing a boulder up a mountain only for it to roll down again. Camus concludes 'The struggle itself (.) is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy'. Although neither an absurdist nor an atheist, Mark Shields shares Camus' belief that it is the struggle that counts. It is through the effort to wrestle meaning from life that art is made. Shields has continually pushed himself to embrace new challenges and to avoid formula. His dread of slipping into habit has led him to adopt an experimental approach to subject matter and materials. The Inaccessible Land consists of work created over the last four years and presents a number of distinct series that explore the tensi.