Patrick Caulfield

Now available in paperback for the first time, this is the only major monograph to be published on the paintings of Patrick Caulfield whose work has enjoyed widespread popular appeal and critical acclaim over the past four decades. When Caulfield established his reputation in the early 1960s, his deadpan handling and his reliance on vivid, flat colours encased in uniform black outlines led to him being hailed as one of the originators of Pop Art in England. Caulfield himself consistently denied an interest in popular culture, preferring instead to make timeless pictures that subtly and with great originality reconfigured such traditional subjects as interiors and still-lives. Marked by a graphic elegance, a finely tuned colour sense and a sometimes melancholy air, these are among the most haunting paintings of the late twentieth century. Illustrating over 150 works, this book reproduces almost all the paintings made by Caulfield since 1961, when he was still studying at the Royal College of Art alongside such painters as David Hockney and R. B. Kitaj. In so doing, it comprehensively charts the evolution of one of the most thoughtful and engaging painters of our time. It weaves together analytical and interpretative texts published over the past quarter century by Marco Livingstone, the foremost authority on Caulfield’s work, with new material on different phases of the artist’s career. Individual key paintings are awarded separate, in-depth attention.

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Authors Biography

Marco Livingstone is a leading authority on contemporary art, both as a writer and independent curator, with a particular interest in Pop Art and figurative painting, both of which he has published on extensively. He has curated Pop Art exhibitions throughout Europe and in Japan and Canada as well as numerous touring retrospectives including those of Patrick Caulfield, Jim Dine, Duane Hanson, David Hockney, Allen Jones, R.B. Kitaj, Peter Phillips, Paula Rego, George Segal and Tom Wesselmann. His publications on painting, sculpture and photography include extended catalogues for those exhibitions as well as monographs on Dine, Hockney, Jones, Kitaj and Duane Michals. His book David Hockney: Portraits and People was awarded the Sir Bannister Fletcher Award for best book on the arts in 2004. His Patrick Caulfield: Paintings (2005) and Richard Woods (2006) are published by Lund Humphries.

Artists Biography

(b London, 29 Jan 1936). English painter and printmaker. He began his studies in 1956 at Chelsea School of Art, London, continuing at the Royal College of Art (1960–63), one year below the students identified as originators of Pop art. A reticent man, he remained wary of being identified with any movement but came to be associated with Pop art chiefly through his participation in the New Generation exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, in 1964.

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