One day, something happens : paintings of people / a selection by Jennifer Higgie from the Arts Council Collection.

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Arts Council Collection [creator.]

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Publisher: London : Hayward, 2015Description: 104 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 27 cmContent type:

text
still image

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unmediated

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volume

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9781853323300 (pbk.) :
1853323306

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Summary: Celebrated writer and art critic Jennifer Higgie illuminates her fascination for the figure in modern British painting through the works of artists as diverse as David Hockney, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Paula Rego and Peter Blake. Teasing out common themes, from representations of joy and loneliness to masks and the carnivalesque, she offers a very personal journey through contemporary figurative art.

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Item type	Home library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
2 week loan	Hockney Library Main Floor	757/ONE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		7412204226

Published to accompany the Arts Council Collection, UK Touring exhibition, held at Leeds City Art Gallery, 6th March-7th June 2015; Nottingham Castle Museum, 20th June-6th September 2015; Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, October 2015-February 2016; Atkinson Gallery, Southport, 13th February-22nd May 2016; and Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, 15th October 2016-8th January 2017.

Celebrated writer and art critic Jennifer Higgie illuminates her fascination for the figure in modern British painting through the works of artists as diverse as David Hockney, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Paula Rego and Peter Blake. Teasing out common themes, from representations of joy and loneliness to masks and the carnivalesque, she offers a very personal journey through contemporary figurative art.

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One day, something happens : paintings of people / a selection by Jennifer Higgie from the Arts Council Collection.

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