Studio Voices: Art and Life in 20th-Century Britain

Author:   Michael Bird
Publisher:   Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
ISBN:  

9781848222304


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   19 October 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Studio Voices explores the multi-layered experiences of modern and contemporary British artists in their own words, drawing on the author's original research in the Artists' Lives audio archive at the British Library. Michael Bird's fascinating oral history of the lives and working practices of artists over the last century, extracted from the huge and growing archive of artists' interviews recorded since 1990, allows us to eavesdrop on artists' life-story conversations, which range through creative practice and professional achievements, childhood memories, family life, relationships, and unexpected, incidental epiphanies of self-awareness. The Artists' Lives project was established in 1990 as part of National Life Stories, the UK's national oral history archive, which is based at the British Library. 

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Author:   Michael Bird
Publisher:   Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Imprint:   Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
ISBN:  

9781848222304


ISBN 10:   1848222300
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   19 October 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

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`40 or so artists talk about making art the centre of a life: their different childhoods, different experiences of war and of love, of parenting, and of art institutions. With Michael Bird's insightful commentary, Studio Voices is an exhilarating testimony to human creativity. A deeply pleasurable book.'


`40 or so artists talk about making art the centre of a life: their different childhoods, different experiences of war and of love, of parenting, and of art institutions. With Michael Bird's insightful commentary, Studio Voices is an exhilarating testimony to human creativity. A deeply pleasurable book.' - Alison Light


‘40 or so artists talk about making art the centre of a life: their different childhoods, different experiences of war and of love, of parenting, and of art institutions. With Michael Bird’s insightful commentary, Studio Voices is an exhilarating testimony to human creativity. A deeply pleasurable book.’ - Alison Light


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Michael Bird is an author, art historian and broadcaster who has written widely on 20th-century British art. His previous books for Lund Humphries are Sandra Blow (2005), Bryan Wynter (2010), The St Ives Artists: A Biography of Place and Time (2008 and 2016), Lynn Chadwick (2014) and George Fullard: Sculpture and Survival (2017).

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