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Walter Sickert / edited by Emma Chambers.

Contributor(s): Publisher: London : Tate, 2022Description: 239 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781849768214
  • 1849768218
Contained works:
  • Sickert, Walter, 1860-1942. Works. Selections
Subject(s):
Contents:
Director's Foreword -- Curators' Acknowledgments / Emma Chambers, Thomas Kennedy -- Introduction / Emma Chambers -- Sickert's Identities. The Look of Sickert: Painting the Self / Anna Gruetzner Robins -- The Apprenticeship Years. The Apprenticeship Years: From Whistler to Degas / Patricia de Montfort -- The Music Hall. The Music Hall and the 'Stage-Struck' Artist / Thomas Kennedy -- The Much-Abused Apostle of Music-Hall Art: Sickert and the Stage / Billy Rough -- Beyond Portraiture. Beyond Portraiture: Sickert and Lifelikeness / Caroline Corbeau-Parsons -- Sickert's Portraits That Tell a Story / Kaye Donachie -- Venice and Dieppe. 'Full of Appeal--Sad--Wan--Touching': Sickert's 'Picturesque' Work / Katy Norris -- Sickert and France / Delphine Lévy, edited by Clara Roca -- The Nude. Sickert and the Nude / Lisa Tickner -- Sickert's Reframing of the Nude / Somaya Critchlow -- The Modern Conversation Pieces. The Modern Conversation Pieces / Wendy Baron -- Transposition: The Final Years. Final Years and Echoes / Sam Rose -- Emulating Sickert: Auerbach, Bacon, Freud / Martin Hammer -- 'Catch Me If You Can': Sickert and Jack the Ripper / Anna Gruetzner Robins -- Notes -- List of Exhibited Works -- Picture Credits -- Index.
Summary: To accompany an exhibition of one of the central figures in British art and the first exhibition dedicated to Sickert at Tate since 1960. An apprentice of Whistler and close associate of Degas, he engaged with the work of French artists of the time. Sickert in turn influenced many British painters up to the present day. This book will show how Sickert transformed the representation of everyday life, with his approach to subject matter, radical compositions and the evocation of the materiality of existence in paint. It will explore the changing nature of his work - from an impressionistic approach in the 1880s to photography in the 1930s - and how he returned over and over to locations and subjects, including his penetrating self-portraits. Sickert's imagination was fuelled by news and current events such as the Camden Town Murders and newspaper photography, but also by popular culture - music halls, the stage, the rise of cinema and celebrity. Featuring over 200 images from the exhibition and a range of essays by scholars, as well as reflections on Sickert's relevance and influence by a selection of contemporary painters including Kaye Donachie and Somaya Critchlow.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Monographs Room SIC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 12364

Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name held at Tate Britain, London, 28th April-18th September 2022; Petit Palais, Paris, 14th October 2022-29th January 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Director's Foreword -- Curators' Acknowledgments / Emma Chambers, Thomas Kennedy -- Introduction / Emma Chambers -- Sickert's Identities. The Look of Sickert: Painting the Self / Anna Gruetzner Robins -- The Apprenticeship Years. The Apprenticeship Years: From Whistler to Degas / Patricia de Montfort -- The Music Hall. The Music Hall and the 'Stage-Struck' Artist / Thomas Kennedy -- The Much-Abused Apostle of Music-Hall Art: Sickert and the Stage / Billy Rough -- Beyond Portraiture. Beyond Portraiture: Sickert and Lifelikeness / Caroline Corbeau-Parsons -- Sickert's Portraits That Tell a Story / Kaye Donachie -- Venice and Dieppe. 'Full of Appeal--Sad--Wan--Touching': Sickert's 'Picturesque' Work / Katy Norris -- Sickert and France / Delphine Lévy, edited by Clara Roca -- The Nude. Sickert and the Nude / Lisa Tickner -- Sickert's Reframing of the Nude / Somaya Critchlow -- The Modern Conversation Pieces. The Modern Conversation Pieces / Wendy Baron -- Transposition: The Final Years. Final Years and Echoes / Sam Rose -- Emulating Sickert: Auerbach, Bacon, Freud / Martin Hammer -- 'Catch Me If You Can': Sickert and Jack the Ripper / Anna Gruetzner Robins -- Notes -- List of Exhibited Works -- Picture Credits -- Index.

To accompany an exhibition of one of the central figures in British art and the first exhibition dedicated to Sickert at Tate since 1960. An apprentice of Whistler and close associate of Degas, he engaged with the work of French artists of the time. Sickert in turn influenced many British painters up to the present day. This book will show how Sickert transformed the representation of everyday life, with his approach to subject matter, radical compositions and the evocation of the materiality of existence in paint. It will explore the changing nature of his work - from an impressionistic approach in the 1880s to photography in the 1930s - and how he returned over and over to locations and subjects, including his penetrating self-portraits. Sickert's imagination was fuelled by news and current events such as the Camden Town Murders and newspaper photography, but also by popular culture - music halls, the stage, the rise of cinema and celebrity. Featuring over 200 images from the exhibition and a range of essays by scholars, as well as reflections on Sickert's relevance and influence by a selection of contemporary painters including Kaye Donachie and Somaya Critchlow.