Bryan Robertson (1925-2002) was the greatest director the Tate
Gallery never had. In 1952, at the age of 27, and against
formidable competition (which included David Sylvester and Lawrence
Gowing), he became Director of the Whitechapel Gallery, a post he
held until 1969. While there he effected a revolution in the
British museum world, bringing the more innovative and radical
American and European contemporary artists to the UK, as well as
programming a series of exhibitions devoted to British artists in
mid-career. He was the first to show Pollock, Rothco, Rauschenberg
and Johns in England, matching this with historical re-evaluations
of Turner, Stubbs, Bellotto and Rowlandson. Among Europeans he
showed Mondrian, de Stael, Malevich and Poliakoff , and the English
artists included Barbara Hepworth, Alan Davie, Ceri Richards and
Keith Vaughan. Among younger painters and sculptors he identified
the New Generation of Caro, Hoyland, Riley, Jones and Caulfield,
and stage-managed a flow of exhibitions which transformed the
Whitechapel and made it the gallery to visit. Robertson was a man
of vision and flair, and this book celebrates his lasting infl
uence over the way we look at and think about art, as witnessed
through the words of his friends and contemporaries and in excerpts
from his own written works.
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