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The Photographs of Joan Leigh Fermor
"Elusive, enigmatic and beautiful, Joan Leigh Fermor [a.k.a. Joan Rayner] (1912-2003) was also one of the finest photographers of her time. Although hailed and hired by John Betjeman and Cyril Connolly from the 1930s, and a remarkable recorder of the London Blitz, she most excelled in pictures of unspoilt Greece taken between 1945 and 1960 as visual notes and with no thought of publication. The scale of her achievement was only discovered after her death in 2003. What emerge in her wide-ranging work is an eye of immense subtlety and empathy, and an entire absence of ego. The artist's ease is reciprocated in the faces of Cretan shepherds, Meteoran monastics and Macedonian bear-tamers. Her vision is both intimate in portraiture and architecture, and panoramic in landscape, and most firmly focused in an abiding love of Greece. The archive of 5,000 images now in the National Library of Scotland - and partly introduced in this monograph - reveals, at long last, a 20th century photographer of significance."--Provided by publisher.
John Craxton
Uplifting and engaging, this story recounts the life and career of a rebellious 20th-century British artist Born into a large, musical, and bohemian family in London, the British artist John Craxton (1922–2009) has been described as a Neo-Romantic, but he called himself a “kind of Arcadian”. His early art was influenced by Blake, Palmer, Miró, and Picasso. After achieving a dream of moving to Greece, his work evolved as a personal response to Byzantine mosaics, El Greco, and the art of Greek life. This book tells his adventurous story for the first time. At turns exciting, funny, and poignant, the saga is enlivened by Craxton’s ebullient pictures. Ian Collins expands our understanding of the artist greatly—including an in-depth exploration of the storied, complicated friendship between Craxton and Lucian Freud, drawing on letters and memories that Craxton wanted to remain private until after his death.
Rose Hilton
This new book on painter Rose Hilton (b.1931), one of the last survivors of the legendary St Ives group of post-war Modernist artists, is an illustrated, personal account of her life and work which focuses on her blossoming late career. Rose Hilton turns 85 in 2016 and shows no sign of relaxing her industrious work rate. In fact, since her 2008 Tate St Ives exhibition, her output of radiant abstract paintings has grown prodigiously. Author Ian Collins has been a close friend of Rose Hilton for over 20 years and has sat for numerous paintings by the artist. Placing Rose Hilton's relationship with painter Roger Hilton in the context of her whole career, Collins' text focuses on recent work, drawing on interviews with friends and family, as well as extracts from archival material, to produce a wonderfully intimate account of Hilton's life, experiences and approaches to picture-making.
John McLean
John McLean (b. 1939) has been likened to British art's secret weapon: a self-propelled missile whose long career has been an unfettered exploration of abstraction and a unique journey into colour. This is the first book to be published on the artist, and celebrates his ongoing creativity in painting, as well as his more recent forays into printmaking, sculpture and his glittering designs for cathedral stained-glass windows.
Making Waves
From Turner to Damien Hirst via Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Stanley Spencer and Lucian Freud Southwold has drawn some of the biggest names in British art and a wealth of distinctive talents. Most have found magic here. A few have noted something darker. The port-resort with brewery, pier and lighthouse at its heart is a creative beacon: Philip Wilson Steer, fresh from France, virtually invented British Impressionism in the adjoining artists' summer colony of Walberswick from 1884 - the year pioneering photographer P.H. Emerson moved to Southwold. Ian Collins also reveals how modern British art so nearly had a Suffolk rather than a Cornish air. Most of all this book lovingly portrays a very special place through the eyes and lives of artists, both resident and visiting. It revels in waves of art taking in everything from serious treasures to cartoon postcards: an essential companion for all lovers of East Anglia's first resor"
Masterpieces
Magnificent pictures, art objects, ceramics, design classics, sculpture, furtniture and much more are contained in this publication, which accompanies an exhibition of the same title being held at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. Object are arranged chronologically from prehistory to the present day. A substantial and informative introduction by the editor is followed by essays on each period accompanied by descriptions by art experts of the individual pieces. A showcase of the artistic heritage of the University and its region. 0Exhibition: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in the University of East Anglia, Great Britain (14.09.2013-24.02.2014).
The Art of Jeremy Gardiner
Providing a comprehensive assessment of Jeremy Gardiner's painting and printmaking career to date, this monograph, the first of its kind, seeks to explain how this distinctive artist has developed the visions of mid-century landscape modernists like Peter Lanyon, John Tunnard and even Ben Nicholson, to create a post-millennial artistic interpretation of landscape.
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Will Teather
British artist Will Teather's paintings and drawings often depict curious characters caught up in uncanny situations. Influenced by magical-realism and lifting motifs from diverse sources such as Flemish still life, baroque art and Weimar painters, the artist enters into direct conversation with the history of painting with the aim of bringing a contemporary sensibility to the table. The book includes over 100 high quality reproductions of the artist's work, a biography by art critic Ian Collins, 2 essays by leading academics and an interview with the artist. Teather has featured in exhibitions and publications internationally, receiving numerous grants, awards and scholarships. He has been awarded spells as Artist-in-Residence for venues in New York, Aberdeen and Norfolk. Work is held in public and private collections in the UK and overseas.
Ghika, Craxton, Leigh Fermor
On February 24, the art lovers of Cyprus will be able to enjoy a fascinating retrospective of the life and work of three important artists of the 20th century. The exhibition ‘Ghika, Craxton, Leigh Fermor: Charmed lives in Greece’, presents the friendship of three significant figures, the artists Nikos Hatzikyriakos-Ghika (1906-1994) and John Craxton (1922-2009) and the writer Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011), from the early years of their acquaintance in the mid-1940s to the end of their lives. Through the display of works of art, extracts from texts, photographs, letters, manuscripts and publications, we follow their relationship and their artistic and literary careers, with their love...
