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A racy account of the London contemporary art scene by celebrated
art critic Matthew Collings, giving a snapshot of the new Bohemia
of the 90s interwoven with episodes from the author's own life in
London. From Francis Bacon to Damien Hirst, specially-commissioned
photographs by documentary film-maker Ian MacMillan brings London's
artists, dealers and critics face to face with the reader.
The definitive survey of Keith Tyson's thirty-year career. British
Turner Prize-winning artist Keith Tyson is known for a distinctive
and diverse body of work including drawing, painting, installation
and sculpture. Showing a wide range of influences, from mathematics
and science through to poetry and mythology, he is interested in
how art emerges from the combination of information systems and
physical processes that surround us every day. For over thirty
years, Tyson has probed, dissected, explored and questioned
reality. Not fixed to one artistic style, Tyson sets out to
challenge himself and the audience, whilst working with diverse
materials - paint, clay, metal, resin - to question our knowledge
of the world we perceive as real, and art's role in representing
it. With newly commissioned texts from an internationally diverse
array of writers, and including a previously unpublished interview
with the artist, this is the definitive survey of one of the most
restless and adventurous creators working today.
In the decade before his death in 2011, John Hoyland began to
reckon with mortality. Confronting his own demise, he painted
elegies to departed artist friends and tributes to illustrious
artistic forebears. Imagery of the void looms large, but it is a
void faced with defiance and vitality, less a rumination on the end
than a celebration of life. This publication explores the paintings
Hoyland made in this decade, including his final series, the
Mysteries. Essays by Natalie Adamson, David Anfam, Matthew Collings
and Mel Gooding offer a rich and multifaceted account of a complex
body of work. Hoyland’s veneration of Vincent van Gogh, his
connections to J.M.W. Turner, the use of black as a colour, his
deployment of risk and attempts to subvert his own taste, and his
development of the cosmic visual language of the Abstract
Expressionists are all discussed. Richly illustrated, the book
extends our understanding of Hoyland’s late work within the story
of modern painting as a whole.
'This is Civilisation' is a greatly elaborated version of the
Channel 4 television series of the same name, written and presented
by Matthew Collings. Many of the images in the book are stills from
the programme.
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