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Philip Reeves

Hardback

Main Details

Title Philip Reeves
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Christopher Andreae
By (author) Duncan Macmillan
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:128
Dimensions(mm): Height 260,Width 220
Category/GenreArt and design styles - from c 1960 to now
Individual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9781848221673
ClassificationsDewey:709.2
Audience
General
Edition New edition
Illustrations Includes 98 colour and 5 b&w illustrations

Publishing Details

Publisher Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Imprint Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Publication Date 28 May 2015
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Artist Philip Reeves (b.1931, Cheltenham) has lived and worked in Glasgow since the mid-1950s. Landscape and cityscape underpin his artistic vision, which has explored varying degrees of representation and realism, as well as an ever-evolving abstraction. This long overdue book is the first to survey his entire career, covering his printmaking, watercolour painting, drawing, collage and reliefs. Reeves has brought his own fresh subtlety and distinctiveness to the developing history and expressive potential of abstraction. His printmaking experiments have encompassed both innovative uses of the etching plate and the deployment of found objects. Such work has led to his recognition as an artist of note, particularly in Scotland where he has had many exhibitions. Author Christopher Andreae charts this exhibition history alongside Reeves' impact as a teacher at Glasgow School of Art and as a founding member of print studios in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The breadth of Reeves's work, illustrated extensively here for the first time, may surprise even those who know and like his art. Those who are yet to encounter the oeuvre will find in Philip Reeves a fascinating introduction to a highly inventive artist.

Author Biography

Christopher Andreae has written about art since the early 1960s. He is the author of Mary Fedden: Enigmas and Variations (2007 and 2014), Joan Eardley (2013), Mary Newcomb (1996 and 2007), A Word or Two (a collection of essays published in 2004) and Winifred Nicholson (2009).