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Conrad Atkinson, Richard Cork, ...

John Isaacs Books, 2006

Exceptionally Intriguing and Exquisitely Designed
Conrad Atkinson is quite rightly described as "one of Britain's most important political artists", and this is a long overdue, very welcome and stunningly beautiful record of his work as a landscapist. It's compelling to learn that this iconoclastic and subversive artist was trained at the Royal Academy in London, which makes him a kind of unlikely hybrid of J.M.W. Turner and Joseph Beuys. The ...

Anish Kapoor: Taratantara
Marjorie Allthorp-Guyton, Richard Cork, ...

Actar/BALTIC, 2001

This new volume presents Anish Kapoor's recent landmark installation Taratantara, a site-specific work set in a flourmill in northeastern England, on the coast of the Baltic Sea. The work consists of a red membrane inserted into the mill's open wall--a massive, sublime object that at a distance appears flat and extradimensional, but upon a closer look reveals its concavity and its organic materiality. It is a work that plays with our ...

Phoenix: Architecture/Art/Regeneration

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Louise Campbell, Richard Cork

Black Dog Publishing, 2005

Shows What Can be Done
First comment, this book is not about Phoenix, Arizona. It's about the Phoenix Initiative, an experiment in rebuilding the center of a city. In this case the city is Coventry (England). And not unlike what was done in several US cities such as Baltimore and San Antonio the results have been surprising. In each of these cities, there has been concern about protecting and in this case restoring the ...

Annus Mirabilis?: Art in the Year 2000
Richard Cork

Yale University Press, 2002

Richard Cork is one of the most serious, most influential, and best-informed art critics in Britain today. These four volumes contain a selection of his articles from the seventies, eighties, nineties, and the year 2000. The result is a fascinating chronicle and invaluable record of a turbulent period that gives an overview and survey of British art and its reception over the past thirty years which is wholly unprecedented in its scope.

Blast to Freeze. Britische Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert
Richard Curtis, Penelope Curtis

Hatje, Kunst- u. Architektur-Verlag(Hatje/Cantz Verlagsge5Gerd Gerd, 2002

Blast To Freeze: British Art In The 20Th Century
Andrew Causey, Richard Cork, ...

Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2003

It was a sensation, indeed, when the young British artists took over the art scene in the 1990s. But what came before them? With works from more than 100 artists, Blast to Freeze traces the epoch-making art movements of an entire British century, from the outbreak of World War I to the collapse of the Soviet Union, beginning and ending with a decided break from the traditional. In 1914 a group of young British artists, the Vorticists, in their ...

A Bitter Truth: Avant-Garde Art and the Great War
Richard Cork

Yale University Press, 1994

The trauma of the First World War had an immensely powerful effect on the painters, sculptors, and printmakers who participated in it. Challenging propagandist views of the struggle, painters such as Meidner, Kandindsky, Chagall, Nevinson, Hartley, Beckmann, and Kirchner produced an extraordinary range of objective, expressionist, or allegorical art that conveyed the immediacy and horror of their experiences and feelings. This arresting book by ...

Blast: Vorticism 1914-1918
Jane Beckett, Deborah Cherry, ...

Ashgate Publishing, 2001

Bottle of Notes: Claes Oldenburg/Coosje Van Bruggen
Richard Cork

Lund Humphries Publishers, 1997

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