Description
Book SynopsisA fully updated edition of the most comprehensive illustrated survey of the life and work of Peter Blake, one of Britainâs most popular artists. Since his emergence in the early 1960s as a key member of the Pop Art movement, Peter Blake has become one of the best-known and most popular artists of his generation. Though primarily a painter, he has worked across many media, from drawings, watercolours and collages to sculpture and printmaking, as well as commercial art in the form of graphics and album covers â most notably his design for The Beatlesâ Sgt. Pepper album in 1967. Exploring his remarkable creative output from the 1950s to the present, Peter Blake is the most comprehensive illustrated survey available of the life and work of the artist. Marco Livingstone grounds Blakeâs art firmly in his working-class origins, identifying a yearning for the innocence of childhood in his bittersweet paintings of the early to mid-1950s that depict children reading comics or going to the
Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsbr
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
