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One Man Show
出版Lund Humphries, 2009
主題Art / GeneralArt / Criticism & TheoryArt / EuropeanArt / History / Contemporary (1945-)Art / Individual Artists / GeneralArt / Individual Artists / MonographsArt / Popular Culture
ISBN18482201549781848220157
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bPaeQAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Since his emergence in the early 1960s as a key member of the Pop Art movement, Peter Blake (b.1932) has been one of the best-known and widely loved artists of his generation. Blake's reputation from the outset was based on working across all media. Though primarily a painter, he has produced collages, drawings, watercolours, sculpture, prints, as well as commercial art in the form of graphics and album covers, most notably his design for The Beatles' Sgt Pepper album in 1967. Peter Blake: One-man Show considers the artist's remarkable diversity, assessing his work across all media, from the 1950s to the present. Marco Livingstone grounds Blake's art firmly in the working-class existence that he led as a child and a teenager, identifying a yearning for the innocence of childhood in Blake's bittersweet paintings of the early to mid-1950s depicting children reading comics or going to the Saturday matinєe at the cinema. From that moment, while studying at the Royal College of Art in London, Blake concerned himself with popular entertainments as subject matter, and as the source of formal solutions, for his paintings. The directness with which Blake gave expression to his enthusiasms for mass culture during the 1950s brought him to the forefront of the Pop Art movement before it had even been named, and independen- tly of the investigations into similar areas by other British, American and European artists.