Michael Craig-Martin

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Craig-Martin: ARP

Michael Craig-Martin

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Michael Craig-Martin: IVAM Centre Del Carme 21 Septiembre 2000-7 Enero 2001

Michael Craig-Martin; IVAM Centre del Carme

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Michael Craig-Martin: And Sometimes a Cigar Is Just a Cigar

Michael Craig-Martin; Wurttembergischer Kunstverein

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Vision: 50 Years of British Creativity

Michael Craig-Martin; David Hockney; Melvyn Bragg; Martin Harrison; David Sylvester; Christopher Frayling; Nicholas Serota

The second half of the twentieth century has seen British artists, architects, and designers assuming a central role on the world stage. Starting in the years of reconstruction after the war, the young began to challenge accepted artistic values, looking at popular culture for their inspiration; the iconoclasm of the Pop movement has continued to be one of the most vital ingredients of the British art scene. In the year-by-year record that this book provides, the work of newcomers making their first impact is seen alongside that of outstanding artists in their maturity, with connections and contradictions across the entire visual scene -- from architecture, interior design, furniture, and the decorative arts to painting, sculpture, and graphic art. Pictures and text explore the many factors that contributed to the special character of British art. The unique system of artists teaching in art schools, the worlds of fashion and pop music, political and social developments: the response of the best artists to these influences has always been original and questioning and has opened new avenues for future development. The book is organized by decade, and the achievements of each are highlighted by statements from a distinguished group of artists, designers, collectors, and critics who have themselves made a significant contribution to each decade. Encouragement, challenge, and opposition have all provided stimulus for creative talents that have been able to override the changes of taste and fashion. The book features the work of more than 250 artists, from Henry Moore, David Hockney, Francis Bacon, and Lucian Freud to James Stirling, Richard Rogers, Neville Brody, and Damien Hint. Thepublication is also a celebration of the first fifty years of Thames and Hudson -- founded by Walter Neurath in 1949 -- and the role that the publishing house has played in educating the public and supporting the arts during this period.

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Michael Craig-Martin: Always Now

Michael Craig-Martin; Eckhard Schneider; Kunstverein Hannover

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Drawing the Line: Reappraising Drawing Past and Present

Michael Craig-Martin; Distributed Art Pub

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Bridget Riley: Dialogues on Art

Michael Craig-Martin; Bridget Riley; E. H. Gombrich; Neil Macgregor; Andrew Graham-Dixon; 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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Minimalism

Michael Craig-Martin

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Michael Craig-Martin: A Retrospective, 1968-1989

Michael Craig-Martin; Whitechapel Art Gallery

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