Synopsis
First retrospective of this artist's work in many years.
John Bellany accompanies an exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh from 17 November 2012 - 27 January 2013.
John Bellany, born 1942, helped change the course of painting in Scotland. His intensely felt paintings of fisherfolk and their precarious life at sea were a direct challenge to the much diluted Scottish colorist tradition and its landscapes and still lifes. The sheer size and raw emotion of Bellany's canvases, their depictions of a way of life that the artist knew from growing up in a Port Seton fishing family - and their elevation of that life onto a symbolic level - were at odds with the decorative, drawing-room pictures of much contemporary Scottish painting in the 1960s.
This book will mark John Bellany's seventieth birthday and will accompany the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of John Bellany's work since the National Galleries of Scotland organized the retrospective in 1986. The fully illustrated catalogue will illustrate paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints from all the key periods of the artist's career.
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About the Author
Keith Hartley is Chief Curator and Deputy Director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. He has written widely on modern and contemporary Scottish art, including Scottish Art Since 1900,The Vigorous Imagination, Douglas Gordon: Superhumanatural and, in 1986, John Bellany. He is an expert on modern German art, curating exhibitions and writing catalogue essays on The Romantic Spirit in German Art, Otto Dix, Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer and Vienna 1908-1918. He has also written on modern American artists, including Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha and Robert Mapplethorpe.
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John Bellany (Catalogue for the Passion for Life exhibition, National Galleries of Scotland, 2012)
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 112pp, profusely illustrated in full colour. Laminated, illustrated stiff card covers. 4to. Some very gentle edge wear t card covers else volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. John Bellany (1942=2013) changed the course of painting in Scotland. His intensely felt images of fisher folk and their precarious lives at sea were a direct challenge to the much diluted Scottish Colourist tradition and were at odds with the decorative, drawing-room pictures of much contemporary Scottish painting in the 1960s. This volume includes essays and reproductions of his works from the key period of the artist's career, beginning with the much-celebrated paintings of fishermen and fishing boats from the mid 1960s to the darker and harrowing pictures of the early 1970s and 1980s which seem to to explode as Bellany battles with real and imagined demons. Seller Inventory # 040266
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A copiously illustrated catalogue for the John Bellany: A Passion for Life exhibition held at Scottish National Gallery in 2012/13. Includes 4 accompanying essays. The text & plates are unmarked throughout and there are no inscriptions (just an erased pencil price). There is a slight forward lean to the spine but no creasing and the pictorial wraps display only light surface wear (a small crease to top tip of rear cover). Overall a very presentable copy - please see 8 pictures attached for a closer look. Seller Inventory # ABE-1771089023416
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