Adrian Heath

This is the first book on British abstract painter Adrian Heath (1920-1992), who was a member of the Constructivist circle and a pioneer of abstraction in Britain in the post-war period.

Jane Rye paints a full portrait of Adrian Heath's life and career, alongside reproductions of a wide selection of work from his entire oeuvre, and gives a clear account of the theories and development of abstract art in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, and of the vital part Heath played in the avant-garde art world of post-war Britain.

This new Adrian Heath art book by Jane Rye will be published in early 2012.

Authors Biography

Jane Rye is a freelance writer and reviewer and was previously Assistant Editor of the London Magazine, to which she contributed regular articles on art subjects. Her publications include Futurism (Studio Vista, 1972) and a translation from the Italian of a book on Mondrian in Hamlyn's series of Twentieth Century Masters (1970).

Artists Biography

Adrian Heath 1920-1992

Adrian Heath was born 1920 in Burma and studied art under Stanhope Forbes in Newlyn before attending the Slade School of Fine Art in 1939. In a German prison camp during the Second World War he was an active escapee and gave lessons in oil-painting to Terry Frost, who became his lifelong friend and described him as 'the bravest man I ever knew'. After the war he returned to the Slade and became a pivotal member of the circle of abstract artists around Victor Pasmore in the late 1940s, which included Mary and Kenneth Martin and Anthony Hill. Between 1951 and 1953 Adrian Heath exhibited three seperate times at his Fitzroy Street studio which have become legendary in the history of post-war British modernism.

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