The art and life of Josef Herman : 'in labour my spirit finds itself'
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書誌事項
The art and life of Josef Herman : 'in labour my spirit finds itself'
Lund Humphries, 2009
- タイトル別名
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In labour my spirit finds itself
大学図書館所蔵 全4件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-182) and index
Biography: p. 183
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Born in Warsaw in 1911 into a working-class Jewish family, Josef Herman arrived in Britain (via Belgium) in 1940, settling first in Glasgow and then in the South Welsh mining village of Ystradgynlais. By the early 1950s, known mainly for his images of Welsh miners, he had established himself as a major figure in contemporary British art and his work featured prominently in the 1951 Festival of Britain. By the end of the decade, examples of his work had entered virtually every important public collection in the UK. Further public recognition came in 1981, when he was awarded an OBE, and in 1990, when he was elected a Royal Academician.Herman was no follower of fashion, however, and throughout his long life remained true to his conviction that art and morality should never be far apart, that technique, though important, should always be subservient to subject-matter, and that working men and women - whether in Poland, Wales, Burgundy, Suffolk or Mexico - embody a profound and universal human archetype. This monograph is the first book to look at all aspects and phases of Herman's career in equal detail, and to place his life and work in a broader cultural context.
Generously illustrated, it includes images both familiar and unfamiliar, some of them - as the result of the author's extensive researches - reproduced for the very first time. It aims both to introduce this important artist to a new public, and to reveal a creative spirit of far greater diversity and complexity than even Herman's longstanding admirers will have suspected.
目次
- Contents: Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 'Hunger in the eyes': Warsaw 1911-38
- 'A doorway to humanism': Belgian interlude 1938-40
- 'Like a tight-rope walker': the Glasgow years 1940-43
- 'Dead as Ashes': London 1943-4
- 'A new belief in man's serenity': the Welsh years 1944-52
- 'A considerable figure in contemporary British art': Wales, London and beyond 1952-62
- 'Like silent waters into which a stone is dropped': Suffolk 1962-72
- 'An inward tunnel towards feeling': the later years 1972-2000
- Notes
- Biography
- Solo and joint exhibitions
- Selected group exhibitions
- Works in public collections
- Select bibliography
- Picture credits
- Index
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