John Mcewen Text (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Exhibition catalogue: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February-29 March 1981. 64pp. NEAR FINE copy. Acquired from the artist's estate.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1987 Large Soft Cover near fine book. No inscription. 88 pages. Biography. Chronology. Illustrations.

Stiff Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. Exhibition catalogue, which includes numerous black and white illustrations. 40 pages, please check with us for an accurate postage cost "Michael Sandle studied at Douglas School of Art and Technology, Isle of Man from 1951 to 1954 and the Slade School of Fine Art, London from 1956 to 1959. In his early work he emphasised craftsmanship and the search for symbols, rejecting the formalism increasingly common in sculpture of the period. Throughout the 1960s and '70s he worked on a small range of individual works in which he explored abstract and figurative idioms. Following his appointment as professor of sculpture at Pforzheim, Germany in 1973, and at Karlsruhe, Germany in 1980, Sandle's work became more monumental, partly in response to a series of significant commemorative commissions. His work voices criticisms of what Sandle describes as "the heroic decadence" of capitalism, in particular its appetite for global conflict. He has also attacked the media for packaging and sanitising the destructiveness of war. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1994. He has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions in Britain and internationally including the 5th Paris Biennale, 4th and 6th Documenta and Sao Paulo Biennale." (Royal Academy of Arts).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st. Cloth, 239 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** A major publication on the Portuguese artist Paula Rego (1935-2022). She established herself in London, and was a contemporary of Hockney and Auerbach, but her work was in a Surrealist vein. Size: 4to. …

SOFTCOVER. Condition: FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Issued without a dustjacket. 1st Edition. Large landscape 4to. in stiff card covers, unpaginated, approx. 16pp on thick art paper, colour plates, etc . [CONDITION: A well preserved FINE clean and tight unmarked copy (slight sunning to front cover fore-edge, few tiny specks of shelf rub to rear cover) ] . To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…

SOFTCOVER. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Quarto size (4to) in stiff glossy card covers, 64pp, plates in colour and b/w, etc. Catalogue for two exhibitions 1st being John McEwen, Christopher Pratt, Tim Zuck and the 2nd Tony Brown, George Legrady, John McEwen . [CONDITION: A well preserved near FINE clean and tight copy (few spots of slight shelf rub to cover edges, very slight creasing to spine edges) ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…