William Scott
- Artist: William Scott
- Published: 2004
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson, London
- Format: Hardback
- Height: 30cm
- Pages: 448
- Illustrations: Over 400 b/w and colour illustrations
£75.00
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This lavish volume includes work from all periods of William Scott's work introduced and assessed by the art historian Norbert Lynton.Born in Scotland in 1913, William Scott first came to the public's attention when he participated in the Arts Council's exhibition at the 1951 Festival of Britain. In 1953 he visited Rothko, Pollock, de Kooning and others in New York, and began to exhibit there regularly. His work ranges from abstract paintings to increasingly rich still lifes with multiple levels of meaning.This account of William Scott and Scott's art includes consideration of the artistic currents operating in western art during his time and is rooted in the author's personal knowledge of the artist and the art world he inhabited, and has involved first-hand contact with his work around the world as well as full access to the Scott Archives.
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Authors Biography
Norbert Lynton, who died in 2007, was the founding professor of art history at Sussex University and a respected critic. His books include The Story of Modern Art, the Yale Dictionary of Art and studies of Quentin Bell, Paul Klee, Ben Nicholson, Victor Pasmore and Jack Smith.
Artists Biography
(b Greenock, Strathclyde, 15 Feb 1913; d nr Bath, 28 Dec 1989). Painter of Irish and Scottish descent. He spent his childhood in Scotland and from 1924 at Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh. His Irish father, a house- and sign-painter, arranged for him to take lessons from an art teacher at Enniskillen, who introduced him at the age of 14 to the work of Cézanne, Modigliani, Picasso and Derain. He completed his studies from 1928 to 1931 at Belfast College of Art and from 1931 to 1935 at the Royal Academy Schools in London.
