Studio International Art, six bound copies January-June 1963
including Sean Kenny, L S Lowry, Keith Vauughan, Abram Games and many more
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Six issues bound without covers but with contents and title pages bound in at the rear. Quarter leather. 25 × 18.5cm, 272pp.
The Studio was an important art journal founded in 1893, by the 1960s it was moving from it's reportage of traditional art into the more modern, global art world. This bound edition of six issues from 1963 contains some fascinating articles from the sixties art world, including:
Sean Kenny and his Philosophy of Anti-Theatre by Mervyn Levy;
Ota Janecek, Leading Czech Painter by Bernard Orna;
Jack Waldron Sculptor by James Bostock;
West Coast Artists Score in Painting by Dore Ashton;
Andre Volten by Charles S Spencer;
Abram Games and the Poster by Mervyn Levy;
L S Lowry and the Lonely Ones by Mervyn Levy;
Ronald Searle, Satirist by G S Whittet;
The World of Paul Jenkins by Juan Eduardo Cirlot;
1893/1963 British Painting by Bryan Robertson (the author was director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, and reviews the years including Paul Nash, Keith Vaughan, Ivon Hitchens, Francis Bacon, Prunella Clough etc);
Modern Symbolism and strained 'pop' by Dore Ashton;
The Inner Eye of Nicholas Georgiadis by Charles S Spencer;
Geoffrey Clarke, Maker of Art by J P Hodin;
Julian Trevelyan, New perspectives in etching;
The Shell Fountain by Franta Belsky.
As well as pieces on the role of art in schools, London shows, European galleries, auction sales etc. The issues are illustrated throughout, mostly in black and white but with some in colour.
Condition
Good plus condition. As mentioned, the magazines have been bound together without the covers but the text is otherwise complete and in strong readable condition.
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Price
£30.00
