Book Description
A Royal Academy of Arts Publication
"Auerbach's work . . . reminds us that painting may still connect us to the whole body of the world, being more than just a conduit for debate about novelty, cultural signs and stylistic relations."
-Robert Hughes
"Auerbach's work . . . reminds us that painting may still connect us to the whole body of the world, being more than just a conduit for debate about novelty, cultural signs and stylistic relations."
-Robert Hughes
Frank Auerbach's world is London, his home since 1947. The German-born figurative painter (b. 1931) depicts the city and its inhabitants in thick, energetic, brilliantly colored brush strokes. His work, which includes landscapes and portraits that recall the Old Masters, has earned him a place among contemporaries such as Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, and R. B. Kitaj.
This book is published to accompany a retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. With essays on the works, their place in Western art, and on the painter and his sitters, it brings Auerbach's art to a wider audience.
110 illustrations in full color, 160 pages, 95/8 x 111/4"
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Broché
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About the author
Catherine Lampert, outgoing director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, and curator of the 1978 Hayward Gallery exhibition of Auerbach's work, has sat for the painter for the past 22 years.
Norman Rosenthal, exhibitions secretary at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, has contributed to many books and exhibition catalogues, including Abrams' Apocalypse.
Isabel Carlisle is an exhibitions curator at the Royal Academy of Arts. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Broché .
Norman Rosenthal, exhibitions secretary at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, has contributed to many books and exhibition catalogues, including Abrams' Apocalypse.
Isabel Carlisle is an exhibitions curator at the Royal Academy of Arts. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Broché .
