Barnaby Wright: Frank Auerbach
Frank Auerbach
Buch
- The Charcoal Heads
- University of Washington Press, 04/2024
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781913645595
- Bestellnummer: 11788789
- Umfang: 136 Seiten
- Gewicht: 966 g
- Maße: 260 x 250 mm
- Stärke: 18 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 19.4.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
A selection of magnificent works by the German British painter Frank Auerbach.Accompanying an exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery in London, this book presents a remarkable series of haunting drawings by Frank Auerbach. The catalog includes a new piece of writing on one of the drawings from critically acclaimed novelist Colm Tóibín, accounting for his experience and offering new insights into the work and the nature of self-portraiture.
This catalog explores one of Frank Auerbach's most remarkable bodies of work--a series of large-scale portrait heads made in charcoal, produced during his early years as a young artist in postwar London. Auerbach spent months on each drawing, working and reworking them during numerous sessions with his sitters. His prolonged and vigorous process of creation is evident in the finished drawings, which are richly textured and layered. His heads thus emerge from the darkness of the charcoal with burning vitality, born of an artistic and physical struggle with the medium. The process of repeated creation and destruction, of which these images bear visible scars, speaks profoundly of their time, as people rebuilt their lives after the ruination and upending of the war.
The exhibition marks the first time Auerbach's extraordinary drawings, made in the 1950s and early 1960s, have been brought together as a comprehensive group.
Biografie (Colm Tóibín)
Colm Tóibín, 1955 in Enniscorthy geboren, ist einer der wichtigsten irischen Autoren der Gegenwart. Bereits sein erster Roman Der Süden (1994) wurde von der Kritik enthusiastisch gefeiert. Bei Hanser erschienen der Henry-James-Roman Porträt des Meisters in mittleren Jahren (2005), Mütter und Söhne (Erzählungen, 2009), Brooklyn (Roman, 2010), Marias Testament (Roman, 2014), Liebe und Tod (Hanser-Box, 2014), Nora Webster (Roman, 2016), Haus der Namen (Roman, 2020) und zuletzt Der Zauberer (Roman, 2021). Sein Werk wurde mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet, u.a. mit dem IMPAC-Preis. Barnaby Wright, Colm Tóibín
Frank Auerbach
EUR 39,88*