Patrick Caulfield: Paintings - Rilegato

Livingstone, Marco

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0853319170 ISBN 13: 9780853319177

Casa editrice: Lund Humphries Pub Ltd, 2005

Riassunto

This is the first major monograph to be published on the paintings of Patrick Caulfield, whose work has enjoyed widespread popular appeal and critical acclaim over the past four decades. When Caulfield established his reputation in the early 1960s, his deadpan handling and his reliance on vivid, flat colours encased in uniform black outlines led to him being hailed as one of the originators of Pop Art in England. Caulfield himself consistently denied an interest in popular culture, preferring instead to make timeless pictures that subtly and with great originality reconfigured such traditional subjects as interiors and still-lives. Marked by a graphic elegance, a finely tuned colour sense and a sometimes melancholy air, these are among the most haunting paintings of the late twentieth century.
Illustrating over 150 works, this book reproduces almost all the paintings made by Caulfield since 1961, when he was still studying at the Royal College of Art alongside such painters as David Hockney and R.B. Kitaj. In so doing, it comprehensively charts the evolution of one of the most thoughtful and engaging painters of our time. It weaves together analytical and interpretive texts published over the past quarter century by Marco Livingstone, the foremost authority on Caulfield's work, with new material on different phases of the artist's career. Individual key paintings are awarded separate, in-depth attention.

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L'autore:

Marco Livingstone is an art historian and independent curator who has written extensively on Pop Art and more widely on contemporary painting, sculpture and photography. The curator of Caulfield?s first retrospective in 1981, he is the author of the acclaimed Pop Art: A Continuing History and of monographs and major exhibition catalogues on numerous artists including David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, Allen Jones, Peter Phillips, Jim Dine, Tom Wesselmann, George Segal and Duane Michals. His most recent book, Hockney?s Portraits and People, was awarded the 2004 Sir Bannister Fletcher Award for best book on the arts.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Lund Humphries Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0853319170
• ISBN 13: 9780853319177
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288