The Drawings of Peter Lanyon
The Drawings of Peter Lanyon

Author: Margaret Garlake

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-05

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1351775081

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This title was first published in 2003. Peter Lanyon stood at the forefront of landscape painting in Europe during the late 1950s and early 60s. A prominent St Ives artist, he was associated with Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo; his work also has affinities with abstract expressionism. Lanyon's career started just as the study of drawing was being liberated from 19th-century academic constrictions. His many drawings range from records of trips to the Netherlands and Italy to portrait sketches and abstract studies. Lanyon also used drawings extensively in the development of some of his most important paintings. In this study, Margaret Garlake explores Lanyon's theory and practice of drawing; the contribution of drawings to the evocation of place in paintings; his use of models and the metamorphosis of the human body into landscape images, as well as his use of three-dimensional constructions as equivalents to drawing.

Peter Lanyon
Peter Lanyon

Author: Chris Stephens

Publisher: 21 Publishing Limited

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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Peter Lanyon was one of the most exciting and original landscape painters of the 20th Century. The only native-born Cornishman of the St Ives artists, Lanyon's representation of the land he grew up in was complex and passionate: for him it was part social history, part myth, part aesthetic. This book -- the first major assessment of Lanyon's work -- explores how the artist's words and paintings interrogate the very notion of how landscape is perceived and conceived. It tells of Lanyon's singular place within the 20th century's major art movements -- abstraction and the post-war British figurative tradition -- alongside his strong belief in employing landscape and place to explore questions of personal identity. Book jacket.

Peter Lanyon
Peter Lanyon

Author: Peter Lanyon

Publisher:

Published: 1991-12

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781872784052

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British painter Peter Lanyon transformed the art of landscape, rescuing it from picturesque depictions of the English countryside and resituating it as an art form capable of expressing radical ideas. The old European tradition of landscape--mostly concerned with ownership and leisure and not the daily life of the working class--was of no interest to Lanyon. His work instead reframed the consequences of war and industrialization upon a rapidly changing coastal landscape. In "Peter Lanyon," Andrew Causey sets out to explain just how this transformation occurred. Lanyon's family resided in West Cornwall for generations, and Causey asserts that the artist's concern with regional identity, along with his resistance to what he saw as a history of outsider exploitation of St. Ives and the surrounding areas, were integral to his art. Drawing on recent work by cultural geographers, anthropologists, and archeologists, Causey makes sense of Lanyon's relationship to the landscape and the pre-capitalist economy of his region. Provocative and insightful, "Peter Lanyon" is a thoroughly illuminating examination of the modern life of a landscape artist.

World Atlas of Seagrasses
World Atlas of Seagrasses

Author: Frederick T. Short

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780520240476

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Seagrasses are a vital and widespread but often overlooked coastal marine habitat. This volume provides a global survey of their distribution and conservation status.

Amorous Acts
Amorous Acts

Author: Frances L. Restuccia

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780804751827

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Amorous Acts uses psychoanalytic concepts to show how queer theory is operating to put in place a non-heterosexist social order.