Walter Sickert
Published on 7. April 2022
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-84976-821-4 (ISBN)
Description
Walter Sickert was one of the most influential artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An apprentice of Whistler and close associate of Degas, he engaged with the work of French artists of the time. Sickert in turn influenced many British painters up to the present day. This book will show how Sickert transformed the representation of everyday life, with his innovative approach to subject matter, radical compositions and the evocation of the materiality of existence in paint. It will explore the changing nature of his work - from an impressionistic approach in the 1880s to a pioneering use of photography in the 1930s - and how he returned over and over to locations and subjects, including his penetrating self-portraits. Sickert's imagination was fuelled by news and current events such as the Camden Town Murders and newspaper photography, but also by popular culture - music halls, the stage, the rise of cinema and celebrity. Featuring over 200 images from the exhibition and a wide range of essays by scholars, as well as reflections on Sickert's relevance and influence by a selection of contemporary painters including Kaye Donachie and Somaya Critchlow.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 232 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
1366 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84976-821-4 (9781849768214)
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Emma Chambers is curator for Modern British Art at Tate.
Caroline Corbeau-Parsons is an art historian and museum curator. She holds a PhD from King's College, London, and started her career as Editor of the catalogue raisonne of Philip de Laszlo. She was Curator of British Art, 1850-1915 at Tate Britain between 2012 and 2021, when she joined the Musee d'Orsay as Curator of Drawings and British and American Paintings. She notably curated Impressionists in London (Tate and Palais), Beardsley (Tate and Musee d'Orsay), Pastels : from Millet to Redon(Musee d'Orsay), and, more recently, Sargent : Dazzling Paris (Met and Musee d'Orsay). Thomas Kennedy is Curator, Modern British Art at Tate Britain. Katy Norris is Exhibitions and Displays Curator at Tate St Ives, a researcher and writer specialising in women artists, feminism and social reform movements in Britain during the early twentieth century.
Caroline Corbeau-Parsons is an art historian and museum curator. She holds a PhD from King's College, London, and started her career as Editor of the catalogue raisonne of Philip de Laszlo. She was Curator of British Art, 1850-1915 at Tate Britain between 2012 and 2021, when she joined the Musee d'Orsay as Curator of Drawings and British and American Paintings. She notably curated Impressionists in London (Tate and Palais), Beardsley (Tate and Musee d'Orsay), Pastels : from Millet to Redon(Musee d'Orsay), and, more recently, Sargent : Dazzling Paris (Met and Musee d'Orsay). Thomas Kennedy is Curator, Modern British Art at Tate Britain. Katy Norris is Exhibitions and Displays Curator at Tate St Ives, a researcher and writer specialising in women artists, feminism and social reform movements in Britain during the early twentieth century.