Hurvin Anderson
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-1-84822-197-0 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first comprehensive overview of the 20-year career of British artist Hurvin Anderson (b.1965). Anderson is known for painting loosely rendered `observations' of scenes and spaces loaded with personal or communal meaning.
Anderson's painting style is notable for the ease with which he slips between figuration and abstraction, playing with the tropes of earlier landscape traditions and 20th-century abstraction. His paintings of barbershop interiors, country tennis clubs and tropical roadsides teem with rich brushwork and multitudes of decorative patterns or architectural features, at once obscuring and adding to underlying ruminations on identity and place.
Drawing on years of primary research, including interviews with the artist, his peers and his professional colleagues, Courtney J. Martin offers a critical assessment of Hurvin Anderson's painting practice to date that will be enlightening for all students, dealers and collectors of contemporary painting.
Anderson's painting style is notable for the ease with which he slips between figuration and abstraction, playing with the tropes of earlier landscape traditions and 20th-century abstraction. His paintings of barbershop interiors, country tennis clubs and tropical roadsides teem with rich brushwork and multitudes of decorative patterns or architectural features, at once obscuring and adding to underlying ruminations on identity and place.
Drawing on years of primary research, including interviews with the artist, his peers and his professional colleagues, Courtney J. Martin offers a critical assessment of Hurvin Anderson's painting practice to date that will be enlightening for all students, dealers and collectors of contemporary painting.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
100 colour illustrations; 100 Illustrations, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 240 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84822-197-0 (9781848221970)
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Person
Courtney J. Martin is Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Dia Art Foundation, New York. A specialist in 20th-century British art, she was previously Assistant Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University, Rhode Island. She is co-editor of Lawrence Alloway: Critic and Curator (Getty Publications, 2015).
Content
Introduction; Chapter 1: Early Paintings, 1998-2002; Chapter 2: Trinidad, 2002; Chapter 3: Peter's Series; Chapter 4: Painting Expanded; Conclusion