Post-War Friends

Samuelson, Peter

ISBN 10: 0854490752 / ISBN 13: 9780854490752

Published by Carrier Pigeon, 1987

About this Item

47 pp., bw & color ill., 8vo. : Sound binding, sharp corners, touch of bumping to wraps, light foxing to edges/endpages, one signature on half-title page else unmarked : Well packaged, ships with tracking.

Seller Inventory # 230828006

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Post-War Friends
• Publisher: Carrier Pigeon
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0854490752
• ISBN 13: 9780854490752
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 4 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art & Photography

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Synopsis

Paintings & Drawings by Peter Samuelson. The Gay Men's Press [Published date: 1987]. Soft cover, 47 pp. With an Introduction by John Russell Taylor. A nice copy of this hard to find book [From Back cover] Peter Samuelson - a name unknown to most lovers of English Art - has been painting and drawing people and scenes from every day life for many decades. The years after the Second World War were trying times of reconstruction, but also full of hope and adventure. These post-war years had a definite style and ambiance that represented a new and exciting approach - a break from pre-war elitism and an attempt to embrace the everyday person. The war had broken down all sorts of barriers and now for the first time youth burst through and became the arbiter of taste. Today these pictures from ordinary life provoke nostalgia and curiosity, and in their way recreate for us today a je-ne-se-quoi of the times.