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Merlyn Evans (Hardcover)
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Merlyn Evans (Hardcover)
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This is the first full-scale monograph of the life and work of the
remarkable British artist Merlyn Evans (1910-73). Deeply affected
by the poverty and violence that he witnessed in Glasgow during the
depressed years of the late 1920s and early 1930s, Evans developed
a highly personal abstract style, combining plant, crustacean and
mechanical forms. His work was fundamentally shaped by his
conviction that art should be an engagement with life, reflecting
psychological, ethical and political concerns. Surrealism became a
major influence, but Evans's subject matter became increasingly
social and political, reflecting his growing concern over economic
distress at home and political disaster in Europe. Living in South
Africa at the end of the 1930s, he remained preoccupied by the
European crisis, and his paintings made explicit reference to
economic depression, atrocity and war. In London afterWorldWar II,
he took up etching and aquatint and embarked on a distinguished
printmaking career in parallel to his painting. He was deeply read
in psychology, philosophy, politics, mechanics, optics, and the
history and techniques of art, as well as in modernist literature
and contemporary poetry. All these aspects of his thought found
expression in his work as an artist and as a writer and teacher.
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