Howard Hodgkin: Paintings - Softcover

Hodgkin, Howard; Auping, Michael, And Elderfield, John, And Sontag, Susan (Essay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 092986512X ISBN 13: 9780929865126

Publisher: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 1995

Synopsis

A study of a painter of the post-war generation, Howard Hodgkin. He emerged in the 1970's and is known as a brilliant colourist, whose paintings are based on remembered experiences. Spanning his entire career, this book reviews Hodgkin's early and formative experiences, tracing his development from these beginnings. It also offers an exchange between the artist and the author, John Elderfield, exploring ideas and topics illuminating Hodgkin's work. The book also includes a catalogue raisonne of all Hodgkin's oil paintings to date, examining the artist's historical development, the full range of his achievement and the critical reaction to his work.

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Review:

With such evocative titles as "The Last Time I Saw Paris," "It Can't Be True," and "Love Letter," Howard Hodgkin's lush paintings, which are both abstract and narrative, call to mind the mysterious act of remembering. Eighty of Hodgkin's best works, dating from 1980 to 1995, are lovingly reproduced in full color. This book is the catalogue of the most important exhibition of Hodgkin's work in at least ten years, and traces his early development to his current position as one of the leading painters of the postwar generation. Completing the volume is a full catalogue raisonne of all of Hodgkin's oil paintings (complete to 1995), as well as a penetrating essay about the artist and contemporary art by Susan Sontag.

About this edition

• Publisher: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 092986512X
• ISBN 13: 9780929865126
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216