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Keith Vaughan
Keith Vaughan (1912-77) was a major figure in post-war British art who is known for his searching portraits of the male nude and his association with the Neo-Romantic painters. This book provides for the first time a definitive, illustrated account of his life and work, exploring his wide-ranging achievement as a modern British artist.
Face to Face
The core of this book is a detailed examination of 100 British self-portraits in the remarkable Ruth Borchard Collection. The earliest include works by Raymond Coxon, Ithell Colquhoun, Carel Weight and Anne Redpath from the first half of last century, but most are from the 1950s and 60s, helping evoke an entire period in British art and its myriad developing strands. All kinds of artistic influences are to be seen here - art school academicism, Camden Town, Expressionism, the Euston Road School, Kitchen Sink, continental Existentialism. The Collection is full of revelations of once relatively obscure artists who have gone on to become critically appreciated, along with artists of stature who have been unfairly neglected. Each portrait is accompanied by a text discussing the work in some detail, the artist's background and development and any relevant writings. In all, self-portraits by 220 artists are illustrated, mainly in color.
Cyril Power Linocuts a Complete Catalogue
An assessment of Cyril Power's achievement as a dynamic avant-garde printmaker, showing how the potential of linocut printmaking as a semi-abstract language was realised in his work to an impressively original degree.
Joash Woodrow
Joash Woodrow (1927-2006) was a visionary, semi-reclusive artist whose output of several thousand paintings and drawings was discovered only towards the end of his life - filling a modest suburban house in Leeds to the brim. This book illustrates, and discusses in accompanying essays, the artist's landscape and cityscape pictures from his 1940s' adolescence in Leeds, through richly impastoed 1950s' paintings suffused with 'a latent luminosity', to the defiantly original pictures of his final decades: luminous explorations of scruffy local allotments with their ramshackle huts and glistening white picket fences, and transcendant yet acutely observed panoramas of inner city Leeds with its curious mix of high-tech development and unglamorous, sometimes bizarre local details.
Tessa Newcomb's Paris
Capturing the enchantment of Paris in words and paintings.
The Prosecutor
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Legend of a Suicide
Set mostly in the wilds of Alaska, the stories featured in this book take on the shifting legend of a lost father. It features the story 'Ichthyology', where a young boy watches his father spiral from divorce to suicide.
The Adorable Plot
'By visiting allotments, I have been able to share people's pleasure in growing things.the form my gardening takes is observing and drawing other people enjoying their gardens and allotments, ' says Suffolk-based artist Tessa Newcomb. Her paintings and drawings of English allotments in their infinite variety beautifully evoke diverse improvised layouts of fruits, flowers and vegetables (and often stubborn weeds). To say nothing of anarchic shanty towns of distressed, rudimentary huts, the widespread use of everyday detritus such as gleaming discarded CDs to keep pigeons out of peas, and alarmingly vivid blue plastic water butts
Off the Grid
Off-grid isn’t a state of mind. It isn’t about someone being out of touch, about a place that is hard to get to, or about a weekend spent offline. Off-grid is the property of a building (generally a home but sometimes even a whole town) that is disconnected from the electricity and the natural gas grid. To live off-grid, therefore, means having to radically re-invent domestic life as we know it, and this is what this book is about: individuals and families who have chosen to live in that dramatically innovative, but also quite old, way of life. This ethnography explores the day-to-day lives of people in each of Canada’s provinces and territories living off the grid. Vannini and Taggart...
Image of a Man
Post-war British artist Keith Vaughan (1912-77) was not only a supremely accomplished painter; he was an impassioned, eloquent writer. Image of a Man provides a comprehensive critical reading of his extraordinary journal, uncovering the attitudes and arguments that shaped and reshaped Vaughan's identity as a man and as an artist.
