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The first major monograph on the life and work of British artist Adrian Berg (b.1929), this book examines his 50-year career, both as an artist of serious note and as an influential teacher, whose students included Tracey Emin, amongst any others.
List of contents
Author's note; Introduction; Painting nature/the nature of painting; Awakenings, 1929-1956: Discovery of a vocation; Inspirations; Poetic inclinations; Writings; Texts on Berg; Berg's late working methods: an eye witness account; Berg as a teacher; Chronology; Selected collections; Selected solo and group exhibitions; Index
About the author
Marco Livingstone is an art historian and independent curator who has written extensively on Pop Art and more widely on contemporary painting, sculpture and photography. He is the author of the acclaimed
Pop Art: A Continuing History and of major monographs including
Patrick Caulfield,
Peter Blake: One Man Show and
Peter Kinley, all published by Lund Humphries. His book
Hockney's Portraits and People was awarded the 2004 Sir Bannister Fletcher Award for best book on the arts.
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The first major monograph on the life and work of British artist Adrian Berg (b.1929), this book examines his 50-year career, both as an artist of serious note and as an influential teacher, whose students included Tracey Emin, amongst any others.
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'Livingstone’s splendid study of Berg’s life goes a long way to helping us understand his extraordinary brilliance as a colourist of rare intuition and observation, yet it allows the reader and viewer to enjoy the work independently as well…Grounded in perceptual observation, but full of the dynamism of hope, Berg’s work is among the finest British landscape painting of all time.' - Studio International
