Description: Thames and Hudson, London, 1994. Soft Cover. By Andrew Graham Dixon. First Edition (Thames and Hudson=NAP). Signed and inscribed by the artist on the half-title page: 'For______ From Howard 1994.' 114 illustrations, 96 in color. Check out the prices on signed copies of Howard Hodgkin's books. This one is way below the average. From the front flap: 'Howard Hodgkin is now being acknowledged as one of the great painters of modern times and one of the most inventive and original colorists of the twentieth century. His paintings exist at the margin between representation and abstraction, bright mosaics shot through with hints and glimmerings of recognizable form. They are intelligent objects, constantly in dialogue with the art of the past, but they wear their learning lightly. The cryptic intensity of Hodgkin's art stems from the artist's self-confessed desire to be true to his own feelings, to embody his passions and fears, his aspirations and anxieties, in the often refractory medium of oil paint. His art is both tender and profound.Andrew Graham Dixon study of Hodgkin's work is the first monograph to have been published on the artist. Written in a free and discursive spirit, it investigates Hodgkin's rich and complex art through its guiding themes and elucidates the passions and preoccupations that lie behind the paintings. Avoiding the standard chronological course of many monographs, the book focuses on the emotional and intellectual essence of Hodgkin's paintings as the author explores their themes and strategies in great detail. He examines Hodgkin's complex use of scale and color, the nature of his pictorial language, the frequent eroticism of his art, the notions of time and of human experience that it embodies - and finds a perennial tension in the work between exuberance and melancholy. Graham-Dixon argues that Hodgkin is a classic modern painter, but in an old-fashioned sense; an artist who meets Baudelaire's old clarion call for a "painter of modern life." Hodgkin stands confirmed by this richly illustrated study as one of the most remarkable painters of the hesitant, truant nature of human experience, an artist whose great achievement is to have created equivalents, in painting for the texture of memory itself.'
Price: 175 USD
Location: Pound Ridge, New York
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Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Topic: Abstract Art, Artists
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Subject: Art & Photography
Language: English
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Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
