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John McLean (b. 1939) has been likened to British art's secret weapon: a self-propelled missile whose long career has been an unfettered exploration of abstraction and a unique journey into colour. This is the first book to be published on the artist, and celebrates his ongoing creativity in painting, as well as his more recent forays into printmaking, sculpture and his glittering designs for cathedral stained-glass windows. Born and raised in north-east Scotland, John McLean has been based in London since the early 1960s save for spells in America spent nurturing his exhilarated and exhilarating paintings. Like many of his heroes - Braque, Miro, Gottlieb - he is self-taught. Down the decades he has shown supreme powers of resilience and invention in developing his celebratory art regardless of finance and fashion. A playful wit, which spills into festive cards and caricatures, only underlines a wider seriousness of purpose. For this book, writer Ian Collins sets the biographical scene and marshals a parade of expert witnesses - critics and curators, musicians and architects, poets and painters - to provide a personal response to the artist's work. In this lively procession of voices, painter and printmaker Bert Irvin salutes 'some of the most important abstract paintings of our period', while artist Jeffery Camp hails John McLean as 'The always aware, ever young, ever colourful, ever colour loving, surefire abstract artist'. John McLean himself remains the main act, however, speaking eloquently for himself both in words and pictures.
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Ian Collins is a writer, curator and collector. His 2005 volume Making Waves: Artists in Southwold was a book of the year choice in the Times, Sunday Telegraph and Spectator. He has organised exhibitions from Aldeburgh to London and arranged the Mary Newcomb memorial exhibition at Norwich Castle in 2009.
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- PublisherLund Humphries
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 184822012X
- ISBN 13 9781848220126
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages176
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John McLean : A Life in Paint
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4to. Pp: 176. ISBN: 9781848220126. In publisher's pale green boards with black lettering to spine. Illustrated throughout in colour. Inscribed by the artist on the title page to Beatriz with a sketched self portrait in pen. "With best wishes to Beatriz from John Maclean". This is there standard hardback without original artwork. Very good indeed in very good minus dust jacket. Jacket is whole but sunned at the fore edges. Seller Inventory # C62683
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HARDCOVER. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Inscribed and signed by John McLean (as John) on the front blank fly-leaf. and signed again in full on the following leaf. With private view and book launch invitation card loosely inserted. Large 4to. in light green faux cloth, black lettering to spine. 176pp on stiff art paper, colour plates, bibliography, index etc. Published to accompany the exhibition 'John McLean - Paintings (Broadbent Gallery, London 4 December 2009 - 16 January 2010). CONDITION: NEW unmarked copy in NEW complete Dust Jacket. An excellent copy ] __NOTE. Depending on destination, this item may require an extra payment for shipping insurance. If so, orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved the extra cost._ __To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box._We Ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS. Seller Inventory # TH204347
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John McLean. Limited Edition with Signed Colour Print
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Limited Edition with a 5 colour screenprint "Dickmontlaw" on Somerset T.S. 410gsm. Published in an edition of 100 by Broadbent, London. As new in slipcase. Seller Inventory # 22815
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