Overview
Providing a thematic overview of the multifarious work produced by Derek Boshier (1937-2024) from the post-war period to the digital age, this fascinating publication reveals how Boshier’s deceptively playful imagery offers analytical commentaries on societal issues and the fragility and fragmentation of human identity. Among contemporaries such as Peter Blake, Pauline Boty and Peter Phillips, Boshier was a central figure in the British Pop Art movement. Embracing Pop sensibilities, his early work juxtaposed figurative painting and imagery to call attention to nuclear anxieties and the growing consumerism of 1960s Britain. Yet this is just one aspect of Boshier's remarkable artistic journey, which has drawn in painting, drawing, sculpture, film, graphic design and printmaking. The book's broad sweep includes recent paintings and drawings created in America at the height of the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements, and features commentaries by artists, academics, curators and writers who explore how Boshier's ground-breaking activity interrogates truth and logic, fantasy and reality in the modern age. With contributions by James Cahill, Philip Colbert, Eddie Chambers, Susan Compo, Rachele Dini, Inga Fraser, Jann Haworth, Leslie Jones, Emily Langridge, Gregory Salter, Penny Slinger and John Stezaker.
Full Product Details
Author: Helen Little ,
Marco Livingstone ,
James Cahill ,
Philip Colbert
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Imprint: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 22.00cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 26.00cm
ISBN: 9781848226609
ISBN 10: 1848226608
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 20 October 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Author Information
Helen Little is an independent curator, researcher and writer with a special interest in twentieth-century and contemporary British art. Recent publications include Alan Davie and David Hockney: Early Works (Lund Humphries, 2019). Marco Livingstone is an art historian and independent curator who has written extensively on Pop Art and more widely on contemporary painting, sculpture and photography. He is the author of the acclaimed Pop Art: A Continuing History and of major monographs including Patrick Caulfield, Peter Kinley and Adrian Berg, all published by Lund Humphries. Hans Ulrich Obrist is Artistic Director of the Serpentine in London, and Senior Advisor at LUMA Arles. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. He has curated more than 350 exhibitions, most recently Enzo Mari at Triennale Milano (2020).
