PICASSO AND MODERN BRITISH ART by James Beechey (Editor), Chris Stephens (Editor) ( 9781854378903 )

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Title:

PICASSO AND MODERN BRITISH ART

By:

James Beechey (Editor), Chris Stephens (Editor)

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1854378902

ISBN 13:

9781854378903

Publisher:

TATE PUBLISHING

Pub. date:

1 February, 2012

Pages:

240

Description:

Explores Pablo Picasso's lifelong connections with the United Kingdom. This title examines Picasso's enormous impact on British modernism through seven artists in particular for whom he proved an important stimulus: Duncan Grant, Wyndham Lewis, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Graham Sutherland and David Hockney.

Synopsis:

Accompanying a major touring exhibition, "Picasso and Modern British Art" is the first book to explore Pablo Picasso's lifelong connections with the United Kingdom. Picasso's enormous impact on British modernism is examined through seven artists in particular for whom he proved an important stimulus: Duncan Grant, Wyndham Lewis, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Graham Sutherland and David Hockney. Their responses to Picasso's work are wide and varied: from Francis Bacon's extraordinary Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944) that draws from Picasso's paintings of figures on the beach at Dinard, works that Bacon said first inspired him to take up painting, to David Hockney's pictorial 'homages' to Picasso after visiting the major Picasso retrospective exhibition at Tate eight times, the beginning of a life-long obsession with the artist. Such was Picasso's status that it extended beyond the artistic to the political sphere, with the tour of his anti-Fascist work Guernica at the end of the 1930s and his presence at the Sheffield Peace Conference in 1950 making headline news.With over 150 illustrations and texts by leading experts in the field, this book sheds light on a little-known aspect of Picasso's career, while at the same time redrawing our mental map of British culture in the early and mid-twentieth century.

Illustrations:

160 colour

Publication:

Imprint:

Tate Publishing

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Returnable

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