
Peter Kinley
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Published on 28. May 2010
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-1-84822-005-8 (ISBN)
Description
Aptly described as 'an artist's artist', Peter Kinley (1926-1988) was a well-respected painter who achieved great early success and commanded much attention during his lifetime. His work was extensively reviewed during his career, but little has been published about it since his death over twenty years ago. This book, the first substantial monograph on Kinley, redresses this omission.
Through biography and art-historical discussion, the texts by Catherine Kinley and Marco Livingstone provide an in-depth analysis of Kinley's life and work and chart his development from the figure paintings, still-lifes and landscapes of the mid-1950s to the succinct and emblematic works for which he is best known. Livingstone's analysis of the paintings demonstrates how they underwent a dramatic stylistic and philosophical shift in the 1960s towards a flatter, more hieratic style that encoded experience in bold, pared-down compositions. Complemented by a detailed discussion by the artist's widow of his eventful life, from his formative years in Vienna through to his maturity in London and Wiltshire, this book offers the definitive account of Kinley's artistic evolution.
Including 100 colour images of key works from Kinley's forty-year career, the narrative is also supported with biographical photographs from the Kinley family archive. These illustrations, combined with informative and illuminating texts on his paintings and on his singular life, make this publication an essential resource for anyone interested in this key British artist and the period in which he worked.
Through biography and art-historical discussion, the texts by Catherine Kinley and Marco Livingstone provide an in-depth analysis of Kinley's life and work and chart his development from the figure paintings, still-lifes and landscapes of the mid-1950s to the succinct and emblematic works for which he is best known. Livingstone's analysis of the paintings demonstrates how they underwent a dramatic stylistic and philosophical shift in the 1960s towards a flatter, more hieratic style that encoded experience in bold, pared-down compositions. Complemented by a detailed discussion by the artist's widow of his eventful life, from his formative years in Vienna through to his maturity in London and Wiltshire, this book offers the definitive account of Kinley's artistic evolution.
Including 100 colour images of key works from Kinley's forty-year career, the narrative is also supported with biographical photographs from the Kinley family archive. These illustrations, combined with informative and illuminating texts on his paintings and on his singular life, make this publication an essential resource for anyone interested in this key British artist and the period in which he worked.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
Includes 100 colour and 30 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 292 mm
Width: 249 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
1066 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84822-005-8 (9781848220058)
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Persons
Catherine Kinley studied painting at St Martin's School of Art and at the Royal College of Art. She was a curator at Tate from 1978-2004, curating numerous exhibitions and displays of British and international art, and writing on painting, sculpture, installation, video and performance. Marco Livingstone is an art historian and independent curator who has written extensively on Pop Art and more widely on contemporary painting, sculpture and photography.
Content
Contents: Still, life: The Chamber Music of Peter Kinley's paintings - Finding a Voice; Totems; A Search for Essentials; Towards Matisse; Shifts of Emphasis; Nature; New Horizons: India; The Wiltshire Years; Endgame: The Far Reaches of Representation, Marco Livingstone: Peter Kinley 1926-88: Pictures from a Life, Catherine Kinley; Chronology; Exhibitions; Public Collections; Select Bibliography; Picture Credits; Index of Works; General Index