Peter Blake

Marco Livingstone is an art historian, writer and independent curator who has written extensively on post-war painting and sculpture, particularly on Pop Art and figurative painting. His many publications include books and museum catalogues on David Hockney, Patrick Caulfield, R.B. Kitaj, Allen Jones, Clive Barker, Paula Rego, Peter Kinley, Adrian Berg, Duane Michals, Jim Dine, Tom Wesselmann, George Segal, Duane Hanson and Caroline Walker. Livingstone's Hockney's Portraits and People won the Sir Banister Fletcher Award for best book on the arts, and his other publications include Pop Art: A Continuing History, David Hockney and The Essential Duane Michals, all published by Thames & Hudson.

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Introduction
1 Amusements
2 Pop!
3 Fantasy Figures
4 Observations
5 Art for Others
6 Escapist Fantasies
7 Revisiting Art History
8 Encores and Premières: Blake in his Eighties
Postscript: Collecting as an Art
Chronology
Solo Exhibitions
Public Collections
Selected Bibliography
List of Illustrated Works
Photo Credits
Index