Andrew Graham-Dixon

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A History of British Art

Andrew Graham-Dixon

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Other editions: Softcover - 2000, Softcover - 1999

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In the Picture: The Year in Art

Andrew Graham-Dixon

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Renaissance

Andrew Graham-Dixon

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2000

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Howard Hodgkin

Andrew Graham-Dixon

This book of Howard Hodgkin's work by Andrew Graham-Dixon, one of Britain's foremost art critics, was published to great acclaim in 1994. Incisive and beautifully written, it illuminates Hodgkin's rich and complex art through its guiding themes and elucidates the passions and preoccupations that lie behind the paintings. Unlike most monographs, Graham-Dixon's focuses on the emotional and intellectual essence of the paintings as he explores their strategies. Hodgkin's complex use of scale and color, the nature of his pictorial language, and the subtle evocation in his painting of eroticism, time, and experience reveal a tension between exuberance and melancholy. This revised and expanded edition includes over twenty additional color reproductions and is brought up to date with a new chapter in which Graham-Dixon discusses the paintings created since the mid-1990s, works that are freer and more fluent, and often on a much larger scale than earlier ones. Enthusiasm for Hodgkin's paintings among art critics and historians, art collectors, and the general public has never been greater. He stands confirmed by this richly illustrated study as a master of the hesitant, truant nature of life and emotion, an artist whose great achievement is to have created equivalents in painting for the texture of memory itself. 121 color and 22 b/w illustrations.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1994

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Paper Museum: Writings About Painting, Mostly

Andrew Graham-Dixon

Spare and utterly fresh in their point of view, these essays were written in response to notable exhibitions of Western art that appeared in museums across Europe. Graham-Dixon's vision is at the service of a captivatingly quirky, prodigiously cultivated mind, making him one of Britain's most talented young art critics. Photos. full-color paintings.

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Other editions: 1996

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Bridget Riley: Dialogues on Art

Andrew Graham-Dixon; Bridget Riley; E. H. Gombrich; Michael Craig-Martin; Neil Macgregor; Bryan Robertson; Robert Kudielka

Bridget Riley is one of the outstanding figures of modern painting. For thirty-five years she has pursued a course of rigorous abstraction, from her celebrated Op Art works in black and white of the 1960s to the complex colour paintings of the 1990s. On the occasion of a major exhibition of her recent work at the Hayward Gallery, London, in 1992, BBC Radio broadcast an illuminating series of five dialogues, each one between Riley and a well-known personality from the art world. These talks have been brought together in this volume, expertly edited by the art historian Robert Kudielka. With Neil MacGregor, Director of the National Gallery, London, she discusses the art of the past in relation to the present; with Sir Ernst Gombrich the perception of colour in painting; with the artist Michael Craig-Martin, the theory and practice of abstraction; and with the critics Bryan Robertson and Andrew Graham-Dixon she talks about the events and travels that have shaped her life as an artist.

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