Peter Kennard: Visual Dissent
Autor Peter Kennarden Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 aug 2019
This fully illustrated anthology showcases key images from Peter Kennard's work as Britain's foremost political artist over the last fifty years. The book centres around Kennard's images, photomontages and illustrations from protests, year by year, which provoked public outrage; including Israel/Palestine protests, anti-nuclear protests, responses to austerity, climate destruction, and more. Each image is accompanied by captions detailing not only the events in question, but Kennard's approach to the work, including the genesis of the images and the techniques employed. Ultimately, the book highlights Kennard's extraordinary contribution to political art in the twenty-first century.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780745339870
ISBN-10: 0745339875
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: 75 colour images
Dimensiuni: 200 x 240 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: PLUTO PRESS
Colecția Pluto Press
ISBN-10: 0745339875
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: 75 colour images
Dimensiuni: 200 x 240 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: PLUTO PRESS
Colecția Pluto Press
Recenzii
These images refuse to be forgotten ... they remind us of the need to speak out in protest, the protests of the dead and the living' John Berger
'This art is a a jolt of electricity. A shot in the arm. A kick up the backside. You know what? It’s a wake-up call' Jarvis Cocker
'Britain's most important political artist' The Guardian
I take my hat off to you Sir' Banksy
'Art cannot change the world but while Kennard is still working, there is at least hope' Laura Cumming, The Observer
Notă biografică
Peter Kennard is Professor of Political Art at the Royal College of Art. He is the author of Images for End of Century: Photomontages Equations (Pluto, 1999). In 2015, the Imperial War Museum hosted a year long retrospective of his work Peter Kennard: Unofficial War Artist. He has published numerous art monographs, and contributed his visuals to publications, magazines and news stories in the press.
Descriere
50 years of hard-hitting protest art from Britain’s foremost political artist