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Item Number: 129627
Title: Spirit of Place : Joan Eardley, Sheila Fell, Eva Frankfurther, Josef Herman and LS Lowry
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ISBN: 9788857223735
Description: Milan: Skira, 2014. 28cm., hardcover, 250pp., 100 color illus. Exhibition held at Ben Uri Gallery, London. Summary: This volume examines the work of five figurative artists working in Britain in the 1950s: they are Joan Eardley (1921–1963), Sheila Fell (1931–1979), Eva Frankfurther (1930–1959), Josef Herman (1911–2000) and LS Lowry (1887–1976). Each of them established a strong identification with the place in which they chose to live and work and that represented, for a significant part of their careers, the primary focus of their practice. Each associated themselves with a specific place: Eardley, the Gorbals in Glasgow; Fell, the mining community and landscape of her native Aspatria, Cumbria; Frankfurther, London’s East End and its multi-cultural working-class communities; Herman, Ystradgynlais in South Wales with its indigenous mining community; and Lowry, his hometown of Manchester with its industrial, densely populated cityscape. Each produced a concentrated and coherent body of work imbued with this strong sense or spirit of place and the largely working-class people associated with it, although Eardley and especially Fell also produced powerful landscapes. This volume links these five seemingly disparate artists by uncovering a network of relationships, both personal and professional, and their shared exploration of particular artistic concerns and motifs. (^Available December 2014, further details forthcoming^)
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