Derek Boshier: Rethink/Re-entry

Paul Gorman

ISBN 10: 0500093881 / ISBN 13: 9780500093887

Published by Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2015

About this Item

Taking as his subject icons of consumerism and American popular culture, Derek Boshier made his name in the 1960s as one of the key proponents of British Pop Art, along with contemporaries David Hockney, Peter Blake and Pauline Boty. This book traces Boshier's formidable career. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: ACXJ1; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 295 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1866. 2015. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Derek Boshier: Rethink/Re-entry
• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500093881
• ISBN 13: 9780500093887
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

A notable monograph on British artist Derek Boshier, covering his extensive collection of work from the mid-1950s to the present day

Derek Boshier’s art has journeyed through a number of different phases, from films and painting to album covers, photography, and book making. He was a contemporary of Pauline Boty, Peter Blake, and David Hockney at the Royal College of Art and first achieved fame as part of the British Pop Art generation of the early 1960s. He then progressed to making wholly abstract illusionistic paintings with brash colors and strong patterns in shapes that broke playfully free of conventional rectangular formats.

At the beginning of the 1970s, Boshier gave up painting for more than a decade and turned to book making, drawing, collage, printmaking, photography, posters, and filmmaking. His work included album covers and stage-sets for David Bowie and a songbook for The Clash.

Boshier’s work has always conveyed an abiding political and social engagement―reflecting upon themes from apartheid in South Africa to the anxieties provoked by Al Qaeda―and has a profound sense of place, responding to those he has visited and lived in, from Houston, Texas to England and Los Angeles. 302 illustrations

About the Authors

Paul Gorman is an author and commentator on visual culture. He has written a number of books including The Wild World of Barney Bubbles: Graphic Design and the Art of Music, The Story of theFace: The Magazine that Changed Culture, and Derek Boshier: Rethink / Re-entry. 

David Hockney is one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. He has produced work in almost every medium―painting, drawing, stage design, photography, and printmaking―and has stretched the boundaries of them all. He continues to create and exhibit art, and to inspire enormous affection and admiration worldwide, in recognition of which he was awarded the Légion d’honneur by France in January 2026.