Author : Paul Melia
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,22 MB
Release : 1995-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780719044052
Critical analysis of the key developments in Hockney's work over the past 30 years.
Author : David Hockney
Publisher :
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Lisa Tickner
Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre BA
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 33,82 MB
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 1913107108
A groundbreaking and extensively researched account of the 1960s London art scene In the 1960s, London became a vibrant hub of artistic production. Postwar reconstruction, jet air travel, television arts programs, new color supplements, a generation of young artists, dealers, and curators, the influx of international film companies, the projection of “creative Britain” as a national brand—all nurtured and promoted the emergence of London as “a new capital of art.” Extensively illustrated and researched, this book offers an unprecedented, rich account of the social field that constituted the lively London scene of the 1960s. In clear, fluent prose, Tickner presents an innovative sequence of critical case studies, each of which explores a particular institution or event in the cultural life of London between 1962 and 1968. The result is a kaleidoscopic view of an exuberant decade in the history of British art.
Author : Jane Alison
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,51 MB
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 3791379356
This landmark volume offers a major re-assessment of the art that emerged in Britain in the twenty years following the end of the Second World War: a period of anxiety, profound social change and explosive creativity. Published to coincide with the Barbican Centre’s 40th anniversary, it draws together the work of fifty artists, exploring a period straddled precariously between the horror of the past and the promise of the future. Spanning painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and photography, Postwar Modern will explore a rich field of experiment which challenges the idea that Britain was a cultural backwater at this time. Through new texts by Jane Alison, Hilary Floe, Ben Highmore, Hammad Nassar and Greg Salter, the book looks afresh at celebrated artists such as Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Lucian Freud and Eduardo Paolozzi, shown in dialogue with lesser-known figures. These will include those, like Francis Newton Souza, Avinash Chandra and Robert Adams, who were acclaimed by contemporaries but neglected in subsequent history-making; others, like Kim Lim, Anwar Jalal Shemza and Franciszka Themerson, are only now attracting the attention they deserve. Throughout their work, vital shared preoccupations become visible: gender, class, race and nationhood; the body, the bombsite, and the home. It is a period resonating strongly with our own: as the UK emerges from more than a decade of austerity and confronts the challenges of post-pandemic reconstruction, society is asking similarly deep questions about who we want and need to be.
Author : David Hockney
Publisher : Enitharmon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,19 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Painters
ISBN : 9781907587139
David Hockney has enjoyed greater popularity internationally than any other British artist this century. This book, published to coincide a major retrospective of Hockney's drawings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, investigates the relationship between Hockney's art and his life, and charts the shift in Hockney's exuberant work from the early 1950s to his most recent explorations in paintings, drawings, and prints. 181 illustrations, 65 in color.
Author : Clare Barlow
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,60 MB
Release : 2017-04-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781849764520
In 1861, the death penalty was abolished for sodomy in Britain; just over a century later, in 1967, homosexuality was finally decriminalised. Between these legal landmarks lies a century of seismic shifts in gender and sexuality for men and women. These found expression across the arts as British artists, collectors and consumers explored transgressive identities, experiences and desires. Some of these works were intensely personal, celebrating lovers or expressing private desires. Others addressed a wider public, helping to forge a sense of community at a time when the modern categories of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender were largely unrecognised. Ranging from the playful to the political, the explicit to the domestic, these works showcase the rich diversity of queer British art. This publication, the first to focus exclusively on British queer art, will feature sections on ambivalent sexualities and gender experimentation amongst the Pre-Raphaelites; the new science of sexology's impact on portraiture; queer domesticities in Bloomsbury and beyond; eroticism in the artist's studio and relationships between artists and models; gender play and sexuality in British surrealism; and love and lust in sixties Soho. 00Exhibition: Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom (05.04.2017-01.10.2017).
Author : Adrian Clark
Publisher : Paul Holberton Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,71 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN :
Summary: This book puts history back into the history of art. It approaches the British and Irish art worlds from the historical viewpoint, avoiding theories unsupported by facts. By studying the intricate mechanisms whereby artists turned oil on canvas into money - or not - the book explains how artists' reputations were made or broken. Individual artists discussed include Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, John Piper, Graham Sutherland, Jacob Epstein, Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and many more. Readers will be startled and intrigued to find how such artists fought to survive amid the network of powerful individuals, critics and gallery owners that controlled their destinies.
Author : Christie's South Kensington Ltd
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 1999
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Alicia Foster
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,43 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Art, British
ISBN : 9781848223707
Published to accompany the exhibition Radical Women: Jessica Dismorr and her Contemporaries at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, from 2 Novemberr 2019 to 23 February 202.
Author : Barbara Pollack
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 2018-06-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 1838608079
A unique and visionary generation of young Chinese artists are coming to prominence in the art world - just as China cements its place as the second largest art market on the planet. Building on the new frontiers opened up by the Chinese artists of the late 1980s and 1990s, artists such as Ai Wei Wei who came to the West and became household names, this new generation are provocative, exciting and bold. But what does it mean to be a Chinese artist today? And how can we better understand their work? Here, renowned critic Barbara Pollack presents the first book to tell the story of how these Chinese millennials, fast becoming global art superstars, negotiate their cultural heritage, and what this means for China's impact on the future of global culture. Many young Chinese artists have declared they are "not Chinese, but global" - this book investigates just what that means for China, the art market, and the world. Brand new Art from China is the first collection to showcase the dynamic new art coming from Chinese artists, and features full-colour photos and video stills throughout - with many works being published in book-form for the first time. Featuring an in-depth interview with Zhang Xiaogang, probably the most well-known artist in China itself, whose sombre portraits of Chinese families during the Cultural Revolution sell for as much as $12 million at auction, alongside unparalleled access to the tastemakers of today's art scene, Brand New Art from China is the essential guide to Chinese contemporary art today - its vision, values and aesthetics.
