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The first monograph on the influential Romanian artist and teacher This is the first comprehensive monograph on the Romanian-born, UK-based artist Paul Neagu (1938-2004), whose oeuvre transcends traditional artistic disciplines, and who was for several decades an important source of inspiration for young artists, curators and intellectuals. Neagu's philosophical approach led him to push the boundaries of the Western abstract tradition, which he first discovered clandestinely in Communist Romania. He continued to explore abstraction after relocating to London in 1971, where he became an influential teacher at the Slade, Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College (among his students were Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor and Rachel Whiteread). Neagu's practice included performance, sculpture, drawing, painting, video, photography and poetry. He often promoted physical engagement with his more tactile works, underlining one of his enduring aims: to refute what he perceived as the primacy of visuality in art.
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Romanian born Paul Neagu's unique artistic vocabulary demanded sculpture be appreciated by all five senses. As an artist, he invented a new language. As a teacher, he inspired and challenged students who would, in turn, write the story of sculpture.Paul Neagu: Palpable Sculpture presents over 120 works across four of the Henry Moore Institute's galleries, spanning 1968 to 1986. The exhibition includes sculptures, drawings, films, texts and archival material, much of which has never previously been exhibited.In this catalogue, Mel Gooding addresses Neagu's impact on sculpture in Britain; Ileana Pintilie traces the development of his performances into the pivotal 'Hyphen' sculptures in the mid-1970s; Magda Radu tackles Neagu's complex idea of the 'anthroposcosmos' where he attempts to 'de-compose the anatomical elements of the human body', and Jon Wood provides a thoughtful examination of the Generative Art Group.The catalogue also includes a complete list of works in the exhibition and a dedicated colour plates section.Published on the occasion of the exhibition Paul Neagu: Palpable Sculpture at Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 13 August - 12 November 2015.
The Edinburgh Festival of those days was a much more accessible village... The ground rules were well enough understood. Everything about it was containable. The Fringe was the seed bed for talent and ran happily in step with its established elders and betters. They both knew their place. But then something equally remarkable was about to take place in the New Town of the city I knew and loved... The same year, Roddy Martine is born. In 1963 when, at the age of sixteen, he interviewed Sir Yehudi Menuhin and David Frost for an Edinburgh Festival magazine he edited and the following year, met Marlene Dietrich. Both Richard and Roddy have unique perspectives on the most remarkable international...
Presents a collection of Scottish autobiographical essays of George Davie, David Daiches, Robin Jenkins, Muriel Spark, Tom Nairn, Edwin Morgan, Derick Thomson, Alastair Reid, Agnes Owens, Ronald Stevenson, Richard Demarco, Elizabeth Blackadder, Alasdair Gray, Stewart Conn, Hugh Pennington, Allan Massie, Duncan Macmillan, John Byrne, and others.
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The revised and extended BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors presents nearly 300 private collections of contemporary art accessible to the public—featuring large and small, famous and the relatively unknown. Succinct portraits of the collections with countless color illustrations take the reader to more than 40 countries, often to regions or urban districts that are off the beaten path. This practical guide is a collaborative publication stemming from the partnership between BMW and Independent Collectors, the international online platform for collectors of contemporary art. To date, neither the Internet nor any book has ever contained a comparable assembly of international private collections, including several that have opened their doors to art lovers and connoisseurs for the first time.