The Picker House and Collection: A Late 1960s Home for Art and Design - Couverture rigide

Black, Dr Jonathan; Falkner, David; Fisher, Fiona; Lloyd, Fran; Preston, Rebecca; Sparke, Penny

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1781300054 ISBN 13 : 9781781300053

Editeur : Philip Wilson Publishers, 2012

Synopsis

Picker House is a remarkable late 1960s modernist home specifically designed to accommodate a significant international collection of modern and contemporary painting and sculpture. This book brings together leading researchers who examine various aspects of this unique place.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jonathan Black is a Senior Research Fellow in History of Art at Kingston University, UK. A Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, he became interested in the image of Churchill when studying the sculptor Ivor Roberts-Jones, who was responsible for the iconic statue of Churchill in Parliament Square.

David Falkner is Director of the Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University and curator of a broad programme of contemporary art and design projects, including the Stanley Picker Fellowship commissions.

Dr Fiona Fisher is a design historian and works as a researcher in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Kingston University, where she is a member of the Modern Interiors Research Centre. Her PhD on the design and modernisation of London's late nineteenth century public houses was awarded by Kingston University in 2008. Her current research into the British modernist architect Kenneth Wood was supported by an AHRC Early Career Fellowship in 2011 and 2012.

Fran Lloyd, Professor of Art History and the Director of the Visual and Material Culture Research Centre at Kingston University, has published widely on contemporary visual culture and sculpture studies.

Rebecca Preston, a specialist in urban landscape and domestic space in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, is an Associate Researcher in the Modern Interiors Research Centre at Kingston University and an Honorary Research Associate in the History Department at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Philip Wilson Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1781300054
• ISBN 13: 9781781300053
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible