Bill Jacklin by Taylor, John Russell - 1997

Phaidon Press, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Phaidon London 1997. 30 x 26cm, 240pp, b&W and colour illust, hardcover in dustjacket, heavy book extra postage requested for international sale, very good++ Critical & biographical mid-career survey of the life and work of British-born artist.

London: Phaidon, 1997. Hardcover. VG/VG. Charcoal boards with red stamped lettering. Illustrated dust jacket with gray and red lettering in mylar cover. 240 pp. Mainly color illustrations. "Bill Jacklin is one of the most exciting and individual artists of the generation that first came to prominence in the 1960s. Born in London, where he made his early reputation, and now living in New York, he has seemed destined from the start to swim against the stream, neither following fashion nor reacting in knee-jerk fashion against it, but rather being driven by his own internal compulsions. In an era of Pop Art he chose to be an abstract artist, producing intricate patterns of grids and dots. When he had achieved success in this style, and everything seemed to be going his way, he felt irresistibly impelled to return to a type of realistic representation, and so found himself ostracized as a traitor to the cause of abstraction - something which, as a cause, he had never espoused in the first place. He was… Read More

London: Phaidon, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Vdery Good. 4to. pp. 240

Phaidon Press, 1997. First Edition. Oversize Hardback. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book is in excellent condition with light shelf wear/rubbing to bottom cover edges and spine as only blemish, all else Fine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 240 pp. with many color illustrations, many full page. ""This book, at once biographical and critical, is based on a detailed study of the work and many conversations iwth Jacklin, and provides the definitive mid-career survey of a distinctive and original figure in British and American Art."" -- from the flyleaf. In 1985, Bill Jacklin moved to New York. Since that time, the city has been his primary subject. His work in New York explores many different aspects of the city; his paintings often focus on the city's famous landmarks. However, many of his paintings involve large crowds… Read More

Phaidon Press, 1997-06-03. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Phaidon Press, 06/03/1997 00:00:01. hardcover. Like New. 3.0177 cent in x 29.8973 cent in x 25.9403 cent in.