Modern Artists: Peter Blake

Natalie Rudd

ISBN 10: 1854374192 / ISBN 13: 9781854374196

Published by Tate Publishing, 2003

About this Item

This volume forms part of Tate Publishing's Modern Artists monographs. In a career spanning five decades, Peter Blake has established himself as one of the most influential and original artists working in Britain. Coming to prominence in the late 1950s and 60s his deployment of popular culture icons and consumer goods in his work earned him the title of 'father of pop'. His continued engagement with the technique of collage gave rise to one of the most iconic images of the 1960s, the cover he designed for The Beatles' @Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'. Preferring to work outside of art world trends, Blake has instinctively drawn from his own life experience to produce work that unabashedly celebrates sentimental themes such as love, magic and nostalgia.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modern Artists: Peter Blake
• Publisher: Tate Publishing
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1854374192
• ISBN 13: 9781854374196
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Peter Blake (b. 1932) was a pioneer of the Pop art movement in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. His interest in and appropriation of popular culture, as seen in his portraits of movie and pop stars and his re-creations of commercial packaging, predated Warhol. In 1967 he created one of the most famous icons of the era, the cover of The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Here, Natalie Rudd provides a comprehensive account of Blake's wide-ranging and influential oeuvre, one that includes painting, collage, sculpture, and illustration.

About the Author

Natalie Rudd is Exhibitions Curator at Tate Liverpool. She worked closely with Peter Blake on his exhibition About Collage at Tate Liverpool in 2000 and contributed to the exhibition catalogue.