Colin Moss: Life Observed - Softcover

Colin Moss; Chlöe Bennett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0952235544 ISBN 13: 9780952235545

Publisher: Malthouse, 1996

Synopsis

COLIN MOSS: Life Observed
Chloe Bennett (Malthouse Press, 1996)

26 illustrations in colour
65 black and white ilustrations
96 pages

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Review

"... a splendid new book...she has written up the life with admirable sympathy."

Ian Collins -- Eastern Daily Press, June 25 1996

From the Publisher

Colin Moss:Life Observed
Chloe Bennett

With compassion, but without sentimentality, Colin Moss has been drawing and painting ordinary people going about their lives since the 1930s. In the pub, at work, or in the most mundane domestic situations, he has produced a penetrating and at times powerful record of social change.

Through her own research and conversations with Colin Moss, his family, friends and former pupils of the Ipswich Art School, Chloe Bennett has skilfully compiled both a biography and an appreciation of this remarkably versatile artist whose talent for capturing for posterity contemporary character cannot be doubted. Because of the nature of his art this is as much a piece of social history as it is a book on one painter and his pictures.

This study of his life and work is prefaced by a telling introduction by his late friend Mervyn Levy. Mervyn recalled the time, when they were both students at the Royal College of Art, that Colin refused to open the door to Dylan Thomas (drunken!. "Everybody wants to claim association, that they knew Dylan Thomas....there's Colin with Dylan outside his window and he wouldn't let him in!"

Edition details

• Publisher: Malthouse
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0952235544
• ISBN 13: 9780952235545
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88