Sandra Blow by Michael Bird

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Sandra Blow is one of the most important British artists of the last 50 years, committed to abstract painting and with a large and diverse body of work. Yet, despite this, little has previously been published about her. This is the first full-length study of Blow's life and art.

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Sandra Blow by Michael Bird

Sandra Blow is one of the most important British artists of the last 50 years, committed to abstract painting and with a large and diverse body of work. Yet, despite this, little has previously been published about her. This is the first full-length study of Blow's life and art.

'A fascinating read for any Blow enthusiast'

* Cornwall Today *

'Bird's lavishly illustrated retrospective text, the first devoted to Blow, finally gives the artist and her large-scale, vividly hued, obdurately abstract work their due... Highly recommended.'

* CHOICE *

Michael Bird is an independent art historian and curator, and author of more than a dozen books, including The St Ives Artists: A Biography of Place and Time (2008, with a new edition published in 2016/2023), Matt Rugg: The Many Languages of Sculpture (2023), George Fullard: Sculpture and Survival (2017) and Studio Voices: Art and Life in 20th-Century Britain (2018) (all published by Lund Humphries). In 2016 he was National Life Stories Goodison Fellow and in 2018-21 Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Exeter. In 2022 he co-curated Living the Landscape: Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and the Artists of St Ives at the Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen.

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ISBN 13 9781848220898
ISBN 10 1848220898
Title Sandra Blow
Author Michael Bird
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Year published 2011-10-28
Number of pages 172
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.