Derek Boshier: Rethink / Re-entry - Hardcover

Gorman, Paul; Hockney, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500093881 ISBN 13: 9780500093887

Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015

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Derek Boshier s art has journeyed through a number of different phases, from films and painting to album covers, photography, and book making. He was a contemporary of Pauline Boty, Peter Blake, and David Hockney at the Royal College of Art and first achieved fame as part of the British Pop Art generation of the early 1960s. He then progressed to making wholly abstract illusionistic paintings with brash colors and strong patterns in shapes that broke playfully free of conventional rectangular formats.At the beginning of the 1970s, Boshier gave up painting for more than a decade and turned to book making, drawing, collage, printmaking, photography, posters, and filmmaking. His work included album covers and stage-sets for David Bowie and a songbook for The Clash.Boshier s work has always conveyed an abiding political and social engagement reflecting upon themes from apartheid in South Africa to the anxieties provoked by Al Qaeda and has a profound sense of place, responding to those he has visited and lived in, from Houston, Texas to England and Los Angeles.

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Paul Gorman is a journalist, author and commentator on visual culture. He has written a number of books including The Look: Adventures in Rock & Pop Fashion, Reasons to be Cheerful: The Life & Work of Barney Bubbles and Derek Boshier: Rethink / Re-entry. He has staged a number of exhibitions in the UK and France, and is currently a writer at large for GQ.

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Taking as his subject icons of consumerism and American popular culture, Derek Boshier made his name in the 1960s as one of the key proponents of British Pop Art. Since then, his output has been exceptionally diverse, including collage, book design, set design and illustration, as well as photography, film and sculpture. Derek Boshier: Rethink/Re-entry traces Boshier's formidable career. Featuring essays by leading academics, curators, critics and practitioners - each of which is introduced by a new Boshier artwork - Derek Boshier: Rethink/Re-entry is the definitive monograph of this most distinctive of great British artists.

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• Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0500093881
• ISBN 13: 9780500093887
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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