A Reluctant Memoir - Couverture rigide

Ballagh, Robert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1786695316 ISBN 13 : 9781786695314

Editeur : Head of Zeus, 2018

Synopsis

A fiercely honest and unvarnished autobiography from Ireland's most successful and controversial living artist.
Making his name as a Pop artist in the late 1960s and 70s, Robert Ballagh quickly achieved an international reputation. With little formal artistic training, he triumphed in his field despite often formidable hostility. His work was also strikingly topical and political, playing with classic images by Goya or Delacroix to express outrage about the situation in Northern Ireland.

But it is his series of realistic portraits of writers, politicians and fellow artists – often searingly inquisitive and moving in equal measure – that have won him lasting fame. His subjects include Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Samuel Beckett, James Watson, Francis Crick, Harold Pinter and Fidel Castro. And his remarkable self-portraits unsparingly document the process of his own ageing. This memoir is also a story of Ireland over the past sixty years, its violence, hypocrisy and immobility as well as its creativity and generosity.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Ballagh is an Irish artist, painter and designer. He lives and works in Dublin. www.robertballagh.com

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Head of Zeus
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1786695316
• ISBN 13: 9781786695314
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible