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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.
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Peter Doig
Barnaby Wright; Contributions by Catherine Lampert
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Accompanying a major exhibition of new and recent works by Peter
Doig at The Courtauld, London, this publication will present an
exciting new chapter in the career of one of the most celebrated
and important painters working today. It will include paintings and
etchings created since the artist’s move from Trinidad to London
in 2021. It includes a major group of large paintings made for this
exhibition. Doig (born Edinburgh, 1959) is widely acknowledged as
one of the world’s leading artists. He secured his early
reputation in the 1990s as a highly original figurative painter,
producing large-scale, immersive landscape paintings that exist
somewhere between actual places and the realms of the imagination.
Layered into his paintings is a rich array of inspirations, such as
scenes from films, album covers, and the art of the past. His works
are often related to the places where he has lived and worked,
including the UK, Canada and Trinidad. In 2021, Doig moved back to
London where he has set up a new studio. This new studio has become
the crucible for developing paintings started in Trinidad and New
York and elsewhere, which are being worked up alongside completely
fresh paintings, including a new London subject. The works produced
for the exhibition at The Courtauld convey this particularly
creative experience, as Doig explores a rich variety of places,
people, memories and ways of painting that have accompanied him to
his new London studio. For Doig, printmaking is an integral part of
his artistic life: his prints and his paintings often work in
dialogue with one another. The exhibition and catalogue will also
showcase the artist’s work as a printmaker by unveiling a new
series of etchings that Doig has made in response to poems by his
friend, the Nobel prize winning poet Derek Walcott (1930-2017).
This will allow readers to consider the full span of Doig’s
creative process. Doig has long admired the collection of The
Courtauld Gallery. The Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists
who are at its heart have been a touchstone for his own painting
and printmaking over the course of his career. His works presented
here will reflect his current artistic preoccupations and readers
will be able to consider Doig’s contemporary works in the light
of paintings by earlier artists in The Courtauld’s collection
that are important for him, such as those by Cézanne, Gauguin,
Manet, Monet, Pissarro and Van Gogh. The publication will explore
how Doig recasts and reinvents traditions and practices of painting
to create his own highly distinctive works.
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)
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Hurvin Anderson (Hardcover)
Catherine Lampert, Roger Robinson
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The Birmingham-born, Turner Prize-nominated artist Hurvin Anderson
is best known for his brightly painted, densely detailed landscapes
and interior scenes, which are drawn from his own photographs,
sketches and personal recollections particularly those relating to
his upbringing in the Afro-Caribbean community in the Midlands, as
well as more recent trips to the Caribbean. Anderson s luscious
paintings have hybridity at their heart. A tug-of-war plays out
between abstraction and figuration, nature versus the manmade,
beauty and menace, and his British and Jamaican heritage. Born in
the United Kingdom as a member of the Jamaican diaspora, Anderson
relates to the Caribbean as both insider and outsider, aware of the
mythmaking that the idea of lost or future paradise generates.
Anderson, the youngest of eight children, grew up listening to his
family reminisce about their lives in the Caribbean before they
moved to England in the 1960s, an emotional through-line to his
work, suggesting the longing and loss that keeps certain
geographies alive in us. This book, Anderson s first major
monograph, has been carefully curated by the artists himself and
includes paintings, sketches, source material and ephemera, studio
shots, and a series of black-and-white drawings created exclusively
for this publication. The volume also features an in-depth and
deeply considered essay by art historian Catherine Lampert, a text
by poet and writer Roger Robinson, and an illustrated chronology.
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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
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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