Christopher Le Brun, Matthew Holman

Gebundenes Buch

Christopher Le Brun

The Speech of Light, Paintings 2013-2024

Beschreibung

One of Britain's most influential living artists, Le Brun emerged as a significant rising star in the British art scene during the 1980s and continues to create works that are a celebration of light, depth, and the expressive potential of paint. This book presents an in-depth exploration of a discrete and compelling body of work over the past ten years.

Autor

Sir Christopher Le Brun (b. 1951, UK) is one of the leading British painters of his generation, making both figurative and abstract work in painting, sculpture, and print. He was an instrumental public figure in his role as president of the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 2011 to 2019. Since 1990 he has served as a trustee of major British institutions and was awarded a Knighthood (Knight Bachelor) for services to the arts in the 2021 New Year Honours. Matthew Holman is Lecturer in Literature and Fine Art at The University of Hertfordshire. Holman received his PhD from University College London in 2020, and has held research or postdoctoral fellowships at The Courtauld Institute of Art, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Yale University, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies in Berlin. His first book, Frank O'Hara and MoMA: New York Poet, Global Curator, is published by Bloomsbury.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rizzoli International Publications
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 315mm x 263mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 2268g
• ISBN-13: 9780847875665
• ISBN-10: 0847875660
• Artikelnr.: 73724271