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Howard Hodgkin : absent friends / Paul Moorhouse.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: London : National Portrait Gallery, 2017Description: 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 26 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781855147553
Contained works:
  • Hodgkin, Howard, 1932- Works. Selections
Subject(s):
Contents:
Forewords -- Howard Hodgkin: absent friends -- Absent friends, 2000-1 -- Early portraits, 1949-59 -- Abstraction, 1960-7 -- Rethinking portraiture, 1966-76 -- Psychological space, 1974-5 -- A new visual language, 1977-84 -- Portraits of the artist and friends, 1983-93 -- Distillation of expression, 1993-2007 -- Portraits as gesture, 2008-14 -- Portraits as gesture, 2008-14 -- Recent work -- Chronology.
Summary: Hodgkin's art can be seen as providing memorials for people, many of whom are friends, whose absence is countered by the corresponding physical presence of particular paintings. Descriptive elements visible in his earlier portraits from the 1950s are subsumed within paintings that have, over the course of more than fifty years, become more psychologically charged, but no less connected with evoking specific individuals in particular situations. This book, like the exhibition it accompanies, surveys the development of Hodgkin's portraiture from its beginnings in 1949 to the present, including new paintings. Peter Blake, Stephen Buckley, Patrick Caulfield, David Hockney, Philip King, R.B. Kitaj and Richard Smith are among the many leading artists portrayed, so that the British art world emerges as the wider subject of Hodgkin's art. The book also contains a fully illustrated chronology and commentaries on individual work.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
Book Book CGLAS Library Monographs Room HOD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 08962

Published to accompany the exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 23 March - 18 June 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Forewords -- Howard Hodgkin: absent friends -- Absent friends, 2000-1 -- Early portraits, 1949-59 -- Abstraction, 1960-7 -- Rethinking portraiture, 1966-76 -- Psychological space, 1974-5 -- A new visual language, 1977-84 -- Portraits of the artist and friends, 1983-93 -- Distillation of expression, 1993-2007 -- Portraits as gesture, 2008-14 -- Portraits as gesture, 2008-14 -- Recent work -- Chronology.

Hodgkin's art can be seen as providing memorials for people, many of whom are friends, whose absence is countered by the corresponding physical presence of particular paintings. Descriptive elements visible in his earlier portraits from the 1950s are subsumed within paintings that have, over the course of more than fifty years, become more psychologically charged, but no less connected with evoking specific individuals in particular situations. This book, like the exhibition it accompanies, surveys the development of Hodgkin's portraiture from its beginnings in 1949 to the present, including new paintings. Peter Blake, Stephen Buckley, Patrick Caulfield, David Hockney, Philip King, R.B. Kitaj and Richard Smith are among the many leading artists portrayed, so that the British art world emerges as the wider subject of Hodgkin's art. The book also contains a fully illustrated chronology and commentaries on individual work.