Exploring the full breadth of work by British artist Adrian Berg RA (1929-2011), and drawing heavily on the artist's personal archive, this book discusses Berg's meticulous engagement with the landscape which resulted in an impressive oeuvre created over a long career.
Embracing the figurative when abstraction was in the ascendancy, Berg's artistic mission was to push the boundaries of representative painting to discover new interpretations of familiar scenes. Accordingly, his paintings revisited particular places repeatedly — most notably the view of Regent's Park from his studio window at Gloucester Gate.
Highly colourful and engagingly written, this book provides a long overdue appraisal and celebration of an artist who is key to the conversation around the development of British landscape painting, that most celebrated of British traditions.
Price: £49.99
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Imprint: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Publication Date:
06 May 2021
Trim Size: 11.38 X 9.75 in
ISBN: 9781848223943
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), History of art, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, Individual artists, art monographs
'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
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.
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
