Peter Blake: Paris Escapades SIGNED BY THE ARTIST
- Artist: Peter Blake
- Publisher: Enitharmon Editions, London
- Edition: First
- Format: Hardback
- Height: 31cm
- Pages: 132
- Illustrations: Illustrated throughout in colour
£75.00
Add to basketPeter Blake: Paris Escapades SIGNED BY THE ARTIST
SIGNED By Sir Peter Blake
Paris Escapades is a beautiful book of Paris collages by Sir Peter Blake, the follow-up to Venice Fantasies.
As with the Venice images that preceded them, Blake features many familiar monuments in his Paris pictures but places them in extraordinary events that turn them into the imagery of dreams.
Each of the 28 images in Paris Escapades is accompanied by the artist's wry commentaries, and the book is preceded by an interview with Marco Livingstone in which Blake discusses his lifelong involvement with collage. Hugely entertaining as a visual voyage of discovery, Paris Escapades ends up a window into the methods and thought processes of a much loved artist.
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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
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.
