Peter Blake

Why Modern Architecture Hasn't Worked

Form Follows Fiasco

Brian Grimwood

Combining a lengthy interview with illustrations of his work, this is the first complete overview of Grimwood's output, serving to reinforce his fundamental contribution to the changing face of illustration since the 1960s.

The Man who Changed the Look of British Illustration

Barbara Jones

Simon Costin

With full color illustrations, this is Barbara Jones seminal account of 1940's British folk and outsider art. Previously unpublished art and ephemera are included.

The Unsophisticated Arts

In his study of the journalist George Augustus Sala, Peter Blake discusses the way Sala’s personal style, along with his innovations in form, influenced the New Journalism at the end of the nineteenth century. Blake places Sala at the centre of nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals and examines his prolific contributions to newspapers and periodicals in the context of contemporary debates and issues surrounding his work. Sala’s journalistic style, Blake argues, was a product of the very different mediums in which he worked, whether it was the visual arts, bohemian journalism, novels, pornographic plays, or travel writing. Harkening back to a time when journalism and fiction were closely connected, Blake’s book not only expands our understanding of one of the more prominent and interesting journalists and personalities of the nineteenth century, but also sheds light on prominent nineteenth-century writers and artists such as Charles Dickens, Mathew Arnold, William Powell Frith, Henry Vizetelly, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

The Personal Style of a Public Writer

George Augustus Sala and the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press

Contains many black and white photos of the desecration of the U.S. landscape in the late 50's/early 60's.

The Planned Deterioration of America's Landscape

God's Own Junkyard

Brian Wilson

Harvey Kubernik

Guy Webster

Nick Roylance

A musical love letter from Southern California, That Lucky Old Sun continues the awe-inspiring concept album journey that Brian Wilson first began with The Beach Boys' 1966 classic, Pet Sounds & has continued to evolve during his solo career, highlighted by his 2004 critically-acclaimed Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE. The four transitional narratives, co-written with Van Dyke Parks and spoken by Wilson, offer cameos on life and the heartbeat of Los Angeles which propels the album's musical story.

That Lucky Old Sun

Waddington Custot Galleries

Rock, Paper, Scissors will offer a new insight into the work of Blake across the elemental sculpture, paper and collage pieces which make-up his portfolio.

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Ulrich Franzen

Selected Works

The Architecture of Ulrich Franzen

Dawn Ades

Lewis Biggs

Natalie Rudd

Tate Gallery Liverpool

Artist's statement - About collage: Peter Blake in conversation with Natalie Rudd - Collage: a brief history - Biography.

Peter Blake About Collage

Dylan Thomas

Internationally acclaimed for its eccentricity and adored for its lovelorn lyricism, Dylan Thomas's groundbreaking 1954 "play for voices,"Under Milk Wood, has long echoed in the imagination of the founding father of British Pop Art, Sir Peter Blake. An obsession that has spanned almost thirty years, this "greenleaved sermon on the innocence of men" has filled the spaces of Blake's studio, played and replayed on broadcast recordings, and prompted several pilgrimages to Thomas's creative refuge at Laugharne, Carmarthenshire. All is "strangely simple and simply strange" in the sleepy Welsh seaside town of Llareggub, as the dreams, fantasies and realities of the inhabitants unfold across the cycle of one spring day. At once a lively and humorous depiction of the butchers, bakers, preachers and children, of Captain Cat, Nogood Boyo and Polly Garter – with a ribaldry in which Blake delights – it is also a modern pastoral tale on a Chaucerian scale, a quest for innocence and purity of utterance in a "darkest-before-dawn" world. Revealed here for the very first time with the definitive play text are the "dismays and rainbows" of this great artist's richly detailed sequences of 110 watercolors, pencil portraits and collages, comprising one of his most distinctive and significant single bodies of work.

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