An Alphabet by Peter Blake
- Artist: Peter Blake
- Published: 2008
- Publisher: Thames and Hudson, London
- Edition: -
- Format: Hardback
- Height: 31cm
- Pages: 64
- Illustrations: Illustrated in colour throughout.
£18.95
Add to basketAn Alphabet by Peter Blake
This book shows Blake's deep interest in the letters of the alphabet, and reproduces 26 of his newest prints, one for each letter of the alphabet. The interpretation of each letter is a collage of images from vintage cards, magazines and books, and the finished works are both nostalgic and whimsical, humorous and fascinating.
Peter Blakes An Alphabet Book includes an interview by the renowned art writer, Mel Gooding, and a specially designed cover by the artist.
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Authors Biography
Mel Gooding is an art critic, writer and exhibition organiser. He graduated M.A (English) from the University of Sussex in 1966. He has written many catalogue texts and over the last fifteen years contributed extensively to the art press and to magazines and newspapers. His monographs on artists include Bruce McLean(1990), Michael Rothenstein's Boxes (1991) Patrick Heron (1994), Gillian Ayres (2001) Ceri Richards (2002), Patrick Hayman (2005), John Hoyland: Imagination and Image (2006) and herman de vries: chance and change (2006). He has written on art and architecture: William Alsop Architect (1992), Joze Plecnik :The National and University Library, Ljubljana (1997); Public: Art; Space (1998) Abstract Art (2001); Song of the Earth: European Artists in the Landscape (2002). With Redstone Press he has edited Surrealist Games (1991), Alphabets and Other Signs (1991), The Paradox Box (1996), The Playful Eye (1999), Psychobox (2004), and several Redstone Diaries. He has curated many exhibitions, including Ceri Richards Graphics at the National Museum of Wales and tour in 1979-80, F.E. McWilliam: Retrospective at the Tate Gallery in 1989, Michael Rothenstein: A Retrospective at Stoke on Trent and tour 1989-90, William Furlong/ Alan Johnston/ Simon Patterson/ Bruce McLean/ Prunella Clough/ Gillian Ayres etc. at the Customs House, South Shields (1995-1999), Mary Fedden: Retrospective at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, 1996, a select retrospective of the Czech sculptor Stanislav Kolibal at the 1998 Edinburgh Festival, Themes and Variations: Ceri Richards Retrospective at the National Museum of Wales and tour (2002-3), Gillian Ayres: Select Retrospective, Royal West of England Academy, 2004. He was Senior Research Fellow at Edinburgh College of Art from 1998 to 2005. He was made a professor at Wimbledon School of Art in 2006.
Artists Biography
Sir Peter Blake was born in 1932 in Dartford, Kent. He studied at the Royal College of Art (1953-56), where his contemporaries included Frank Auerbach and Bridget Riley. He taught at the Royal College from 1964 to 1976, and has also taught at St Martin’s School of Art.
During the 1960s Blake became well known as a British pop artists, famous for his 1967 album cover for the Beatles’ 'Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band'. His paintings, which frequently used collage, included imagery from music posters and advertisements and often had a nostalgic element. He has also produced sculpture, engraving and prints, as well as commercial art including graphics and album covers.
In the early 1970s Blake used watercolour to illustrate Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, and in 1975 was a founder of the Brotherhood of Ruralists alongside artists such as Graham Ovendon. He was made a Royal Academician in 1981. He had a major retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery in 1983 and was also made a CBE the same year. He was knighted in 2002. More recently, Tate Liverpool put on another up to date restrospective of Blakes painting and 2D work in 2007.
