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A fully updated edition of the most comprehensive illustrated
survey of the life and work of Peter Blake, one of Britain's most
popular artists. Since his emergence in the early 1960s as a key
member of the Pop Art movement, Peter Blake has become one of the
best-known and most popular artists of his generation. Though
primarily a painter, he has worked across many media, from
drawings, watercolours and collages to sculpture and printmaking,
as well as commercial art in the form of graphics and album covers
- most notably his design for The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album in
1967. Exploring his remarkable creative output from the 1950s to
the present, Peter Blake is the most comprehensive illustrated
survey available of the life and work of the artist. Marco
Livingstone grounds Blake's art firmly in his working-class
origins, identifying a yearning for the innocence of childhood in
his bittersweet paintings of the early to mid-1950s that depict
children reading comics or going to the Saturday matinee at the
cinema. From that moment, while studying at the Royal College of
Art in London, Blake concerned himself with popular entertainments
as subject matter, and as the source of formal solutions, for his
paintings. The directness with which Blake gave expression to his
enthusiasms for mass culture during the 1950s brought him to the
forefront of the Pop Art movement before it had even been named,
and independently of the investigations into similar areas by other
British, American and European artists. The radical nature of his
collage paintings of 1959-62, in particular, in which he combined
existing imagery from popular culture with unapologetically bold
and bright colours, made him a singularly influential figure within
British Pop. This fully updated edition includes a new chapter on
what the artist has jokingly styled his 'Late Period', in which
Blake has continued to mine the many strands of his art with
undiminished energy and completed some of his most ambitious
long-standing projects. As well as the sheer scale of Blake's
production, what becomes clear is the kaleidoscopic variety of
subject matter, form and medium to be found in his work, its humour
and friendly appeal, and, above all, its celebration of life and
humanity.
Jim Dine's vivid, candid and detailed reminiscences about his
friendship and working relationship with Aldo Crommelynck, the
printer of Matisse and Picasso, over a period now of more than 30
years are full of affection, humour and layer upon layer of
information. In conversations with the art historian Marco
Livingstone, Dine, one of the greatest post-war American artists,
charts the extent to which his experience of working with a man who
was not only a great printer, but also a skilled draughtsman, an
aesthete, dandy and bon viveur, coloured and enriched his
experience of France on every level, from an appreciation of its
art and culture, its city life and countryside, to its food and its
specialist shops - especially those in which to find the best tools
and musical instruments.Dine's ruminations take some unexpected but
illuminating detours, even into the making of bespoke bicycles,
that prove deeply revealing of the specific nature of his love for
France and of his many debts to an esteemed colleague, fellow
traveller and much loved friend.
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Derek Boshier - Reinventor
Helen Little; Foreword by Marco Livingstone; Contributions by James Cahill, Philip Colbert, Eddie Chambers, …
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R1,139
Discovery Miles 11 390
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Providing a thematic overview of the multifarious work produced by
Derek Boshier (b.1937) from the post-war period to the digital age,
this fascinating publication reveals how Boshier’s deceptively
playful imagery offers analytical commentaries on societal issues
and the fragility and fragmentation of human identity. Among
contemporaries such as Peter Blake, Pauline Boty and Peter
Phillips, Boshier was a central figure in the British Pop Art
movement. Embracing Pop sensibilities, his early work juxtaposed
figurative painting and imagery to call attention to nuclear
anxieties and the growing consumerism of 1960s Britain. Yet this is
just one aspect of Boshier's remarkable artistic journey, which has
drawn in painting, drawing, sculpture, film, graphic design and
printmaking. The book's broad sweep includes recent paintings and
drawings created in America at the height of the #MeToo and Black
Lives Matter movements, and features commentaries by artists,
academics, curators and writers who explore how Boshier's
ground-breaking activity interrogates truth and logic, fantasy and
reality in the modern age. With contributions by James Cahill,
Philip Colbert, Eddie Chambers, Susan Compo, Rachele Dini, Inga
Fraser, Jann Haworth, Leslie Jones, Emily Langridge, Gregory
Salter, Penny Slinger and John Stezaker.
Joe Tilson RA (b.1928) is one of the great figures in post-war
British art and a pivotal artist of the British Pop Art movement
during the 1960s. Still working, and still evolving, he has
continued to explore many new directions and a great variety of
mediums since moving away from his Pop origins. Astonishingly, no
general monograph documenting all these phases of Tilson’s
prolific production has ever been published. This book remedies
this through a series of insightful chapters, exploring each decade
of the artist’s career, written by Marco Livingstone, a respected
authority on British contemporary art. Featuring a lively and
visually rich design, this unique work will guide the reader
through the evolution of one of the most distinctive voices in
contemporary British art.
David Hockney's continuing belief in the importance of the portrait
and his virtuoso skill in creating a sense of close communication
between artist, sitter and viewer has resulted in some of the
best-loved works of the postwar era. From the 1950s on, Hockney's
most persistent subject matter, in paintings, drawings, collages
and photoworks, has been of people usually very close to him, as
well as of himself. These works are narratives of autobiographical
relationships: they reflect the intimate and often intense stories
of this artist's life. They also explore different formal ways of
representing the passage of time and at the same time the
unavoidable but marvellous stillness of portraits. The works
include fascinating sequences as he paints his mother or Henry
Geldzahler or Celia Birtwell on and off for decades; the special
qualities attached to depictions of lovers; and the range of
celebrities, writers and artists - Billy Wilder, Armistead Maupin,
W.H. Auden, Henry Moore, Christopher Isherwood - who have been part
of a very full life. The text by a distinguished European critic
and curator reinforces the point that this hugely popular
English-born artist, who made America his second home, has become a
figure of worldwide appeal.
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Adrian Berg (Hardcover)
Marco Livingstone; Contributions by Paul Huxley RA, Samuel Clarke
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R1,604
R1,480
Discovery Miles 14 800
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Exploring the full breadth of work by British artist Adrian Berg RA
(1929-2011), and drawing heavily on the artist's personal archive,
this book discusses Berg's meticulous engagement with the landscape
which resulted in an impressive oeuvre created over a long career.
Embracing the figurative when abstraction was in the ascendancy,
Berg's artistic mission was to push the boundaries of
representative painting to discover new interpretations of familiar
scenes. Accordingly, his paintings revisited particular places
repeatedly - most notably the view of Regent's Park from his studio
window at Gloucester Gate. Highly colourful and engagingly written,
this book provides a long overdue appraisal and celebration of an
artist who is key to the conversation around the development of
British landscape painting, that most celebrated of British
traditions.
One of the most popular and influential British artists of our
times, David Hockney has never ceased to change his style and ways
of working, always re-energizing his art with new solutions, fresh
ideas and technical mastery. Now excitedly embracing his 'late
period', Hockney remains as engaged as ever with the questions he
has always posed for himself - what to depict, how to depict it and
how to persuade the spectator that he or she is an active
participant rather than just a passive witness. Published to mark
Hockney's 80th birthday and in the wake of the most extensive Tate
retrospective ever accorded to a living artist, this new edition
includes a new preface, afterword and final chapter covering work
of the past two decades. Tracing a line from the beginnings of
Hockney's career in the early 1960s, the portraits and images of
Los Angeles swimming pools, his drawings and photocollages, to his
highly acclaimed stage designs for the opera, video works, his iPad
drawings and other novel forms of picturemaking, Marco Livingstone
shows the continuing preoccupation with invention and artifice that
has made this artist's work at once popular and enduring.
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Centenary Review (Paperback)
Catherine Lampert, Guy Brett, Marco Livingstone, Jonathan Jones, Juliet Sheyu, …
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R191
R161
Discovery Miles 1 610
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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
This is a complete, illustrated catalogue of the painting and
sculpture of Pop Art pioneer Gerald Laing (1936-2011), who shot to
fame in the 1960s with his large-scale, iconic paintings of
film-stars such as Brigitte Bardot and Anna Karina, conveyed in
styles and colours that aped the crude but powerful printing
processes of mass advertising. In 1964 Laing moved to New York and
transformed effortlessly from Pop artist to abstract minimalist,
showing works in the seminal Primary Structures exhibition of 1966
and forming lasting friendships with leading lights of the US art
world, such as Andy Warhol, Larry Poons, Roy Lichtenstein and Larry
Bell. A self-imposed exile to a restored Scottish castle in 1969
removed him from the art world's centre, but allowed him the space
to develop a more personal, sculptural vocabulary in which the hard
edges of his abstraction gradually gave way to anthropomorphic
form. This catalogue raisonne covers each distinct phase of Laing's
career and includes a fully illustrated catalogue of his works
alongside comprehensive related reference material: chronology,
exhibition history and list of public collections. An introductory
essay by Michael Findlay, a close friend of Laing, provides an
overview of his artistic development while essays by gallerist
Lyndsey Ingram, editor David Knight and Marco Livingstone, a
leading authority on Pop Art, examine specific periods and aspects
of Laing's practice.
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