Description
Book SynopsisKevin Sinnott is one of the most popular artists in Britain: his figures in landscapes and images of human relationships are widely sought-after by collectors and museums. This unusual book celebrates his sixtieth birthday and touring retrospective exhibition unsual in that it is written by the artist himself. Part autobiography, part exploration of his art, it describes the British art scene over the last thirty years through personal experience. Sinnott''s life is a great human interest story: struggling artist, success in London, downturn, success in America, rebirth in his native Wales. Snakes and Ladders is real life, not an art historian''s interpretation.
Yet the book has much to say about (and a contribution to make to) ''art history'', discussing key works, turning points, influences, artistsic fashion, trends, and the art media. Written with intelligence and immediacy, and beautifully illustrated with examples of Sinnott''s vivid and lively paintings Snakes and Ladders is an informative and singular book by a striking artist which tells the reader as much, more even, about the world of British art in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries than any critical book can.
