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Joe Tilson RA (1928-2023) was one of the great figures in post-war British art and a pivotal artist of the British Pop Art movement during the 1960s. His work ever evolving, he explored many new directions and a great variety of mediums after moving away from his Pop origins. Astonishingly, no general monograph documenting all these phases of Tilson's prolific production has ever been published. This book remedies this through a series of insightful chapters, exploring each decade of the artist's career, written by Marco Livingstone, a respected authority on British contemporary art. Featuring a lively and visually rich design, this unique work will guide the reader through the evolution of one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British art.
List of contents
1 Tilson Territory; 2 The 1960s :The Pop years; 3 The 1970s: A Labyrinth of Languages; 4 The 1980s: Unity And Wholeness; 5 The 1990s: Le Crete Senesi And Conjunctions; 6 Post 2000: L‘Arte A modo Tilson - The Venice Years; Chronology; Exhibitions; Public Collections; Further Reading; Text Credits; Photo Credits
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 Kinley and
Adrian Berg, all published by Lund Humphries, as well as on Peter Blake, David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, Allen Jones, Jim Dine, Duane Michals, Paula Rego and Caroline Walker, and other artists of the post-war generation.
Summary
Joe Tilson RA (b.1928) is one of the great figures in post-war British art and a pivotal artist of the British Pop Art movement during the 1960s. Still working, and still evolving, he has continued to explore many new directions and a great variety of mediums since moving away from his Pop origins. Astonishingly, no general monograph documenting all these phases of Tilson’s prolific production has ever been published. This book remedies this through a series of insightful chapters, exploring each decade of the artist’s career, written by Marco Livingstone, a respected authority on British contemporary art. Featuring a lively and visually rich design, this unique work will guide the reader through the evolution of one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British art.
