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Pitmen Painters - The Ashington Group, 1934-1984 (Paperback, 4th edition)
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Pitmen Painters - The Ashington Group, 1934-1984 (Paperback, 4th edition)
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From its initial publication in London in 1988, Pitmen Painters,
the story of the Ashington Group from 1934 to 1984, has never been
out of print. Since 2007 when Lee Hall's play The Pitmen Painters,
inspired by the book, was first staged at Live Theatre, Newcastle
upon Tyne it has become increasingly recognised as a classic
account of the role art can play in modern life. Whatever the odds.
Whatever the circumstances. The Ashington Group began in the 1930s
as an evening class of pitmen in an isolated village in the North
of England drawn together in their spare time to learn a bit about
art appreciation. The book tells how appreciation of their work
spread in the Thirties, how they were tracked down by documentary
photographers and film makers, how they resisted interference and
kept their distance from the sniffer dogs of the
socio-anthropological Mass Observation movement. Establishing
complete independence for themselves in their own ex-army hut they
met weekly for decades, through into the 1980's by which time their
work began to be recognised as unique. By then they had built up a
permanent collection of what they decided were their best
paintings. This was toured in Europe and, in 1980, to China, the
first such exhibition there since the cooling of the Cultural
Revolution. A gallery for the collection was built at Woodhorn
Colliery in Ashington and now, with the demise of the coal industry
in Great Britain, renamed the Woodhorn Colliery Museum. Feaver's
book, meanwhile, inspired Lee Hall, creator of the smash hit Billy
Elliot, to write his play about the Group, The Pitmen Painters
which, following acclaimed seasons at the National Theatre in
London, has been taken up in Korea, New Zealand, Estonia and
Slovenia and many other countries worldwide. The play opened at the
Samuel J Friedman Theatre on Broadway in September 2010.
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