Derek Boshier
Reinventor
Published on 20. October 2023
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-1-84822-660-9 (ISBN)
Description
Providing a thematic overview of the multifarious work produced by Derek Boshier (1937-2024) from the post-war period to the digital age, this fascinating publication reveals how Boshier's deceptively playful imagery offers analytical commentaries on societal issues and the fragility and fragmentation of human identity.
Among contemporaries such as Peter Blake, Pauline Boty and Peter Phillips, Boshier was a central figure in the British Pop Art movement. Embracing Pop sensibilities, his early work juxtaposed figurative painting and imagery to call attention to nuclear anxieties and the growing consumerism of 1960s Britain. Yet this is just one aspect of Boshier's remarkable artistic journey, which has drawn in painting, drawing, sculpture, film, graphic design and printmaking. The book's broad sweep includes recent paintings and drawings created in America at the height of the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements, and features commentaries by artists, academics, curators and writers who explore how Boshier's ground-breaking activity interrogates truth and logic, fantasy and reality in the modern age.
With contributions by James Cahill, Philip Colbert, Eddie Chambers, Susan Compo, Rachele Dini, Inga Fraser, Jann Haworth, Leslie Jones, Emily Langridge, Gregory Salter, Penny Slinger and John Stezaker.
Among contemporaries such as Peter Blake, Pauline Boty and Peter Phillips, Boshier was a central figure in the British Pop Art movement. Embracing Pop sensibilities, his early work juxtaposed figurative painting and imagery to call attention to nuclear anxieties and the growing consumerism of 1960s Britain. Yet this is just one aspect of Boshier's remarkable artistic journey, which has drawn in painting, drawing, sculpture, film, graphic design and printmaking. The book's broad sweep includes recent paintings and drawings created in America at the height of the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements, and features commentaries by artists, academics, curators and writers who explore how Boshier's ground-breaking activity interrogates truth and logic, fantasy and reality in the modern age.
With contributions by James Cahill, Philip Colbert, Eddie Chambers, Susan Compo, Rachele Dini, Inga Fraser, Jann Haworth, Leslie Jones, Emily Langridge, Gregory Salter, Penny Slinger and John Stezaker.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
100 Illustrations, color; 20 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 271 mm
Width: 231 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
1027 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84822-660-9 (9781848226609)
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Persons
Helen Little is an independent curator, researcher and writer with a special interest in twentieth-century and contemporary British art. Recent publications include Alan Davie and David Hockney: Early Works (Lund Humphries, 2019).
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. He is the author of the acclaimed Pop Art: A Continuing History and of major monographs including Patrick Caulfield, Peter Kinley and Adrian Berg, all published by Lund Humphries.
Hans Ulrich Obrist is Artistic Director of the Serpentine in London, and Senior Advisor at LUMA Arles. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. He has curated more than 350 exhibitions, most recently Enzo Mari at Triennale Milano (2020).
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. He is the author of the acclaimed Pop Art: A Continuing History and of major monographs including Patrick Caulfield, Peter Kinley and Adrian Berg, all published by Lund Humphries.
Hans Ulrich Obrist is Artistic Director of the Serpentine in London, and Senior Advisor at LUMA Arles. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. He has curated more than 350 exhibitions, most recently Enzo Mari at Triennale Milano (2020).
Content
Preface, M. Livingstone; Introduction, H. Little; 1 'Cold War Consumerism in Derek Boshier's Pop Period', R. Dini; 2 'Encounters: Derek Boshier and Film', I. Fraser Plate section: The Identikit Man, G. Salter; Plaza, J. Haworth; The Depressed Cosmetic Salesman, J. Stezaker; KKK, E. Chambers; Los Angeles Times, J. Cahill; Les Messieurs d'Avignon, P. Slinger; David Bowie and Teresa Cornelys, S. Compo; America America, L. Jones; The King of K Pop, P. Colbert; Interview: Derek Boshier and Hans Ulrich Obrist; Chronology, E. Langridge; Index