Derek Boshier: Rethink/Re-Entry
Language: English
Published by Thames & Hudson, New York, 2015
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- Hardcover
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288 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. A large-format coffee-table book. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "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. Since then, his output has been exceptionally diverse, including collage, book design, set design and illustration, as well as photography, film and sculpture. Rethink/Re-entry traces Boshier's formidable career. Beginning with his rise to prominence in the early 1960s, it then follows his abandonment of painting in the 1970s and his experimentation with new modes of expression, such as collage and illustration, as exemplified by his iconic sleeve design for David Bowie's album Lodgerand his drawings for Clash 2nd Songbook. In this decade he formed the Artists Union with Bridget Riley and Robin Klassnik and produced politically inspired banner, poster and flyer designs, as well as curating public events such as the Smith/Novak Event. The chapters on the 1980s detail Boshier's return to painting. This move coincided with his departure to Texas to teach, where he adopted the iconic figure of the Texan cowboy as the subject for his 'Cowboy' series as well as producing a prolific number of landscape paintings. The 1990s saw him relocate to Los Angeles, where he encountered a culture and iconography that provided rich source material for his later works." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Overview, by John A. Walker; Image in revolt, by Chris Stephens; Pop goes the easel: Derek Boshier in 1962, by Lisa Tickner; Alteration, permutation, transformation, by Guy Brett; Think big band; think punk, by Paul Gorman; Texas years, by David E. Brauer and Jim Edwards; News from the metropolis, by Christopher Finch. Size: 4to.…
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- Title
- Derek Boshier: Rethink/Re-Entry
- Author
- Boshier, Derek; Hockney, David (Foreword by), and Gorman, Paul (Edited by)
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson, New York
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Book Type
- Collectible
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0500093881
- ISBN 13
- 9780500093887
- Edition
- 1st.
- Seller catalogs
- European::British & Irish, Genre & Subject::LGBTQ+, Movements::Pop Art & Happenings, Movements::Punk, New Books, USA::6. Late Modern, 1945-1999, USA::States::Texas, XXX::COLLECTIBLES, XXXL: Jumbo
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
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About the Author
David Hockney (1937–2026) was one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He produced work in almost every medium―painting, drawing, stage design, photography, and printmaking―and stretched the boundaries of all of them. During his lifetime, he published numerous books with Thames & Hudson, including Hockney's Pictures, The World According to David Hockney, Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy, and David Hockney by David Hockney (first published in 1976 with a 50th anniversary edition forthcoming in 2026). Thames & Hudson also published the catalog for his major retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in 2025.
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