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The development of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s is the story of interlinking friendships, shared experiences and artistic concerns among a number of acclaimed artists, including Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Gillian Ayres, Frank Bowling and Howard Hodgkin. Drawing on extensive first-hand interviews, many previously unpublished, with important witnesses and participants, the art critic Martin Gayford teases out the thread connecting these individual lives, and demonstrates how painting thrived in London against the backdrop of Soho bohemia in the 1940s and 1950s and ‘Swinging London’ in the 1960s. He shows how, influenced by such different teachers as David Bomberg and William Coldstream, and aware of the work of contemporaries such as Jackson Pollock as well as the traditions of Western art from Piero della Francesca to Picasso and Matisse, the postwar painters were allied in their confidence that this ancient medium, in opposition to photography and other media, could do fresh and marvellous things. They asked the question ‘what can painting do?’ and explored in their diverse ways, but with equal passion, the possibilities of paint.

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Book category Books in English The arts Art forms Painting & paintings

• Full title: Modernists & Mavericks
• Author: MARTIN GAYFORD
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9780500239773
• ISBN: 9780500239773
• ID: 18313901
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Weight: 992 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 151 × 40 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. April 2018

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