Paul Moorhouse

Superb reproductions of paintings by one of the 20th century's most famous artists: The Visage of War, The Enigma of Desire, the well-known Persistence of Memory, 13 others.

Dali

Among the many pictorial devices Bridget Riley has deployed over

Bridget Riley,Early

Very,Very Person

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Tate Britain, London, Jan. 26-April 17, 2005.

Interpreting Caro

Tate Gallery

Leon Kossoff

Leon Kossoff is one of the most distinctive British artists of the post-war period. Born in Islington in 1926, Kossoff has spent most of his life in the city of his birth and the changing face of London's urban landscape has been a major theme of his art. In the 1950s, Kossoff's dramatic paintings and drawings of bomb sites documented the aftermath of war. These led, in the following decade, to panoramic railway landscapes which charted the city's rebirth and regeneration. In London's railways - from King's Cross to Kilburn Underground station - Kossoff found a focus for the lifeblood of the city. His paintings of these motifs, and of swimming pools, street scenes, markets and London's buildings, form a vivid portrait of modern life in a great metropolis. Kossoff's fascination with London has been complemented by his parallel concern with people. The figure has been a central preoccupation. His subjects are members of his family, friends and models with whom he has forged close working relationships. His portraits of these individuals, and his intimate studies of the nude, are powerful and moving evocations of the human presence. This catalogue is published to coincide with the Tate Gallery's major retrospective exhibition of Kossoff's work - the first survey of his career from the 1950s to the present. It reproduces in color every work in the exhibition and contains an illustrated essay by Paul Moorhouse, the exhibition's curator, which explores in detail the development of Kossoff's art. There is also a biographical chronology with archival photographs, and an extensive bibliography.

Albert Irvin

This is the first monograph on the British p ainter Albert Irvin, whose abstract paintings are among the most exuberant and colourful work produced in Britain today. '

Life to Painting

Dominic Sandbrook

Conceived as a visual dialogue between American and British pop, this book brings together key works by major pop artists working on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1950s and 1960s.

Pop Art Portraits

In the popular imagination, possibly no other artist's work is more recognizable than that of Salvador Dalí. Indeed, for many he is the ultimate mad artist, whose singular vision remorselessly probed his own psychological depths. His nightmarish visions and bizarre landscapes express the angst and turbulence of the twentieth century. Dalí's creativity embraced many different modes of expression and was never constrained by any one style. Over eight decades, the prodigious range of Dalí's activity spanned every conceivable medium, from painting and drawing to sculpture, film, furniture, books, stage design and jewelry, not to mention his highly eccentric public persona, which could be considered an art form in itself.

Salvador Dali: The Impossible Collection

Originally published in Great Britain in 2019 by the National Portrait Gallery, London.

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