9780500092453
Raymond Mason
Michael Edwards; Raymond Mason
ISBN 13: 9780500092453
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Hardcover
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The paintings and sculptures of Raymond Mason never fail to attract a crowd. Often conceived on a large scale, his art - including paintings and drawings, colorful high and low reliefs and sculpture - has a universal appeal. He depicts busy street scenes and familiar landscapes, freezing moments from everyday life and creating dramatic and highly effective tableaux. His figures convey a powerful and very real emotion; their forceful gazes confront and challenge the viewer, demanding attention and response. Experimenting unceasingly with new sculptural forms, Mason explores the limits of realism and figuration itself. In a time without beliefs, his art is inspired by a thought "hungry for humanism, and for more". Born in 1922, Mason has lived and worked in Paris since 1946. A friend of Giacometti, Balthus and Bacon he has established an international reputation chiefly through a number of monumental works in Paris, Montreal, New York, Washington, and his English home town of Birmingham. His retrospectives in Britain and France have attracted record-breaking crowds, but his place in contemporary art is only now beginning to be defined, not least because he has always bravely followed his own path in defiance of passing fashions. This book brings together his major works for the first time, illustrated in over 190 superb photographs. Poet and critic Michael Edwards provides a masterly study of the artist and his oeuvre; his friendship with the artist allows him to consider Mason's working life in Britain and France, and to illuminate individual works with new and unusually searching analysis and interpretation. Essential reading for all those concerned with contemporary art, this importantbook is the definitive study of an artist whose work must surely rank among the most challenging and original of this century.
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Book Description: Thames Hudson Ltd, United States, 1994. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 325 x 240 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. Raymond Mason, the English sculptor and painter born in 1922, has lived and worked in Paris since 1946. A close friend of Giacometti, Balthus and Bacon, he has established an international reputation chiefly through a number of monumental works in Paris, Montreal, New York, Washington, and his home town of Birmingham. Although his large retrospectives in Britain and in France attracted record-breaking attendances, the fact of living abroad, and of following his own path in defiance of passing fashions, has prevented his full recognition as an original artist of his generation. Often conceived on a large scale, and concerned with a wide variety of subjects having universal appeal, his works continue the line of narrative art, and recover the long tradition of polychrome, figurative sculpture. His art as a whole is sustained by a vivid and coherent body of ideas expressed in numerous essays, and while reclaiming the past it with new sculptural forms, and explores the limits of realismn and of figuration itself. In this book devoted to Mason's work, the author raises questions about the nature of art, and about its place in contemporary experience.He offers several interpretations, and a reflection on the implications of Mason's practice and theory. Bookseller Inventory # AA29780500092453 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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