From Kitchen - sink to Shangri - La (signed)

Greaves, Derrick. Hyman, James

ISBN 10: 085331957X / ISBN 13: 9780853319573

Edité par Lund Humphries, UK, 2007

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26 x 30cm 176pp very good hardback in dust jacket, signed by the artist at the top of front free end paper. Contents include: From Sheffield to London: The Artist's Formative Years and Kitchen Sink Painting: Derrick Greaves and Social Realism. Generously illustrated with colour plus black and white reproductions of works and photographs. Derrick Greaves was one of the most important British painters of the last half century. Greaves initially gained acclaim in the 1950s, when he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale along with the other 'Kitchen-Sink' painters with whom he was associated: John Bratby, Edward Middleditch and Jack Smith. Subsequently, his work developed from the social realism of the 1950s to a more heraldic style that paralleled 1960s Pop Art, from an imagery based on nature and observable fact to more studio-bound imaginative constructs.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: From Kitchen - sink to Shangri - La (signed)
• Éditeur: Lund Humphries, UK
• Date de parution: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 085331957X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780853319573
• Reliure: Hardback
• État de l'article: Very good
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur

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Synopsis

Derrick Greaves (b.1927) initially gained acclaim in the 1950s, when he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale along with the other 'Kitchen Sink' painters with whom he was associated: John Bratby, Edward Middleditch and Jack Smith. This is the first book to trace Greaves's entire career to date, providing insight into how his work developed from the social realism of the 1950s to a more heraldic style that paralleled 1960s Pop Art. James Hyman provides a broadly chronological account of the artist's life and work, tracing his years in Sheffield, London, Italy, Woburn and Norwich. He explores the development of Greaves's imagery, from paintings based on nature and observable fact to more studio-bound imaginative constructs. Hyman places the artist in the context of his contemporaries, from the realists of the 1950s to the Pop artists of the 1960s. Published to coincide with the artist's 80th birthday celebrations, this book will be welcomed by art historians, curators, collectors, dealers and all those with an interest in the recent history of British art.

À propos de l'auteur

James Hyman is a London-based art historian who has worked internationally as a writer, lecturer, broadcaster, curator and dealer. He writes regularly for art journals and exhibition catalogues, and his book The Battle for Realism: Figurative Art in Britain during the Cold War 1945-60 was published in 2001.