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Sandra Blow (1925-2006) is among the most important British artists
of the later twentieth century. During a time of rapid change in
the art world, her commitment to abstract painting resulted in a
large and diverse body of work of distinctive power and subtlety.
Michael Bird's fascinating survey of Sandra Blow's life and art is
now available for the first time in a handsome paperback edition.
Compiled in collaboration with the artist during the last years of
her life, it provides a definitive overview of her career. The book
is lavishly illustrated throughout with a fully representative
selection of Blow's work. In this highly readable account, Michael
Bird looks in depth at Blow's evolving studio practice and the
personal nature of her abstract vision. He places Blow's
achievement firmly within the wider context of British and
international art movements of the post-war period and late
twentieth century. He also casts new light on the role played in
her life by Alberto Burri and Roger Hilton, two influences she
acknowledged to be crucial to her art. Through close attention to
Blow's working methods, this book provides a unique insight into
her creative process. It reveals the intensity of emotional
engagement and technical experimentation that lie behind the
apparent spontaneity of her vivid handling of materials, colour and
form.
Often hard to describe, the term modern' changes according to
context or relationship. It is a sensibility that is recognised as
being progressive or forward thinking, pushing the limits of style.
Nowhere is this as easily grasped as in the visual arts. In design,
modern patterns are formed by geometric shapes, graphic figures,
and abstract imagery; coming together in a deliberate formation of
lines, colours, shapes, and symbols. Featuring hundreds of images
of fresh, bold, and innovative pattern work, Modern Patterns is
sure to inspire. Includes a CD-ROM.'
The paintings are grouped under various headings to take the reader
through specific visual experiences beginning with some of the
artist's tools, colour palettes and showing the development of
texture. Seascapes and shorelines are the first stop, going through
to the moors,hills and beyond.
Nina Möntmann's timely book extends the decolonisation debate to
the institutions of contemporary art. In a thoughtfully articulated
text, illustrated with pertinent examples of best practice, she
argues that to play a crucial role within increasingly diverse
societies museums and galleries of contemporary art have a
responsibility to 'decentre' their institutions, removing from
their collections, exhibition policies and infrastructures a deeply
embedded Euro-centric cultural focus with roots in the history of
colonialism. In this, she argues, they can learn from the example
both of anthropological museums (such as the
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne), which are engaged in
debates about the colonial histories of their collections, about
trauma and repair, and of small-scale art spaces (such as La
Colonie, Paris, ANO, Institute of Arts and Knowledge, Accra or
Savvy Contemporary, Berlin), which have the flexibility, based on
informal infrastructures, to initiate different kinds of
conversation and collective knowledge production in collaboration
with indigenous or local diasporic communities from the Global
South. Â For the first time, this book identifies the
influence that anthropological museums and small art spaces can
exert on museums of contemporary art to initiate a process of
decentring.
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This important book presents the work of the fascinating and
singular artist Luigi Pericle (1916–2001). Pericle was a painter,
illustrator and scholar, as well as a leading figure in the story
of art in the second half of the twentieth century. The artist
initially found fame as an illustrator, gaining widespread renown
in the 1950s as the inventor of the character Max the Marmot. But
his intense, enigmatic and multi-layered paintings increasingly
drew the attention of the art world, with works that reflect his
personal, metaphysical take on post-war abstraction exhibited at
numerous venues in Britain during the 1960s. Pericle then abruptly
retreated from the art system, and for the rest of his life
continued to paint, write and to study esoteric philosophy in the
secluded house he shared with his wife Orsolina on Monte Verit 
in the Ticino region of Switzerland. The artist’s work was
dramatically rediscovered in 2016 when the contents of his former
residence were revealed. The process of restoring, cataloguing and
researching his vast oeuvre is ongoing, and is overseen by
Ascona’s Archivio Luigi Pericle, with which the exhibition has
been organised. This beautifully illustrated publication, which
accompanies an exhibition at the Estorick Collection, London,
includes a full catalogue of the works, as well as essays by noted
scholars.
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