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Born in Berlin in 1931 to Jewish parents, the eight-year-old
Auerbach was sent to England in 1939 to escape the Nazi regime. His
parents stayed behind and died in a concentration camp in 1943. Now
in his eighties, Auerbach is still producing his distinctly
sculptural paintings of friends, family and surroundings in north
London, where he has made his home since the war. The art historian
and curator Catherine Lampert has had unique access to the artist
since 1978 when she first became one of his sitters. With an
emphasis on Auerbach's own words, culled from her conversations
with him and archival interviews, she provides a rare insight into
his professional life, working methods and philosophy. Auerbach
also reflects on the places, people and inspirations that have
shaped his life. These include his experiences as a refugee child,
finding his way in the London art world of the 1950s and 1960s, his
friendships with Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and Leon Kossoff,
among many others, and his approaches to looking and painting
throughout his career. For anyone interested in how an artist
approaches his craft or his method of capturing reality this is
essential reading.
British artist Euan Uglow (1932-2000) maintained a lower profile
than others of his generation, yet his beautiful, intelligent,
humane, and often witty landscapes, still lifes, and figure studies
are today gaining the recognition they so clearly deserve. Many
critics and admirers now consider Uglow one of Britain's greatest
post-war artists. This is the first book devoted to Uglow and his
oeuvre. Richard Kendall's essay explores Uglow's fundamental
attitudes, beliefs, and processes in the years 1950 to 1970, and
Catherine Lampert looks at the content and personal nature of the
artist's paintings over a lifetime, emphasizing his growing
attention to color and light. The volume reproduces every known oil
painting by Uglow-a total of more than 400 works--some 80 of which
are here reproduced for the first time. In addition to a
chronology, bibliography, and exhibition history for each work, the
catalogue entries provide many other details and illuminating
notes, including the artist's own observations. Exhibition
Schedule: Marlborough Gallery, London (opens May 2007)
The first extended study of Frank Auerbach's remarkable portrait
drawings reveals their complexity and ambition as works of graphic
art This book offers an original approach to one of Britain's
leading artists: Frank Auerbach (b. 1931). It looks in detail at
his portrait drawings, which Auerbach has been making since the
1950s, and which he has always considered important, freestanding
works of art. By turns eerie, shocking, enigmatic, and hauntingly
tender, they demand fresh interpretation and investigation.
Reproducing more than 130 examples of these portraits, some for the
first time, and featuring new essays by curators, scholars, and
critics, this book provides an unprecedented opportunity to explore
and reassess these striking and sometimes unsettling works of
graphic art. Frank Auerbach: Drawings of People includes texts by
both the editors and the artist himself, and new essays by Kate
Aspinall, James Finch, Alex Massouras, David Mellor, and Barnaby
Wright. Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in
British Art
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Peter Doig (Hardcover)
Peter Doig; Text written by Richard Shiff, Catherine Lampert
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In every generation of artists, there are a few who propose a new
set of ques- tions and alter the way we understand art. Peter Doig
is such an artist. This handsome monograph considers the painter's
entire career, beginning with the early work produced in the 1990s
when Doig's enigmatic but wholly new conception of painting was
first introduced to audiences. Doig was born to Scottish parents,
spent several years as a child in Trinidad, later settling in
Canada for his formative early teen years. He found his voice while
at art school in London, albeit one that was out of step with the
work of the time (much of it installation-based and dripping with
neo-conceptualist leanings). He had developed a small following of
fellow artists and critics when the rest of the art world caught up
and took notice. In 2002, he left London for Trinidad, where he has
remained. The small Caribbean island-with its own distinctive light
and landscape-has deeply influenced his recent work. This volume
was designed in close collaboration with the artist, with a cover
and various interior elements created especially by the artist.
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Centenary Review (Paperback)
Catherine Lampert, Guy Brett, Marco Livingstone, Jonathan Jones, Juliet Sheyu, …
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This centennial catalogue celebrates the remarkable achievements of
the Whitechapel Gallery between 1901-2001. Featuring essays by
Jonathan Jones, Jeremy Millar, Guy Brett, Mark Francis, Catherine
Lampert, Jon Newman, Juliet Styen, Marco Livingstone, Felicity
Lunn, Paul Bonaventura, Rachel Lichtenstein and Alan Dein, Janeen
Haythornthwaite and Brandon Taylor. Artists surveyed include Ian
McKeever, Tim Head, Alfredo Jaar, Ian Breakwell, Susana Solano,
Cathy de Monchaux, Tunga, Boyd Webb, Matthew Higgs and Paul Noble,
Zarina Bhimji, Hamish Fulton and John Murphy
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