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Lovers and Other Strangers: Paintings by Jack Vettriano

Door Anthony Quinn

Categorie
Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer
#371575-KI11
Titel
Lovers and Other Strangers: Paintings by Jack Vettriano
Auteur
Quinn, Anthony
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Pavilion
Jaar van uitgave
2002
ISBN10
1862056307
ISBN13
9781862056305
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, numerous illustrations in colour, 4to.
Samenvatting
The painter Jack Vettriano emerged form the unlikely background of the Scottish coalfields - unknown and untutored - and has seen his canvases hung in the Royal Scottish Academy. His first exhibition sold out, as did the second and he has since become Scotland's most successful contemporary artist. Vettriano's images are neo-realist - real in the sense that he portrays recognizable people in believable situations, yet heightened to that level of dramatic or romantic intensity which fuelled the fiction of the Hollywood dream factory or the novels of Raymond Chandler or F. Scott Fitzgerald. They are tales without text, storyboards about love and lust, possession and longing, pursuit and conquest. He seems to understand perfectly the stylish sexiness and intrigue that occurs when high life an... (Lees verder)d low life collide. His men are predators, gamblers - hard-edged but possibly soft-centred, Bogartian in period and attitude. His women are vulnerable, pliable, probably playthings if the price is right. And beyond the implied narrative of his paintings there is a curious remembrance of times past and lost, of squandered youth on blissful beaches. Critics have linked Vettriano with the bleak paintings of Hopper, the sleazy photographs of Brassai, yet he is unique, identifiable at fifty yards. Anthony Quinn has written an elegant biographical portrait of the man from childhood to present, encompassing his family, schooling and career as well as pausing at significant moments in his career.
Pagina's
160
Conditie
Goed — Name on verso cover.
Prijs
€ 12,50

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