Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

David Bomberg

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Bomberg's career is a case study in neglect. The early popular canvases of this English painter buzzed with mechanistic imagery inspired by futurism. But after fighting on the front in World War I, he lost faith in the machine age. Living in Palestine in the 1920s, he forged a personal figurative style that culminated in such pictures as the remarkably panoramic and detailed Mount of Olives. In Toledo, where El Greco painted, Bomberg refined his expressive vision, an intensely physical response to the world. His menacing images of a WW II underground bomb silo swing between the abstract and representational. Naturalism won out in his Cornwall seascapes, pictures of Cyprus and St. Paul's Cathedral and in the semi-abstract late landscapes in which forces of day and night struggle for supremacy. Cork, a British art critic, has written the definitive monograph on an artist whose reputation has increased steadily since his death in 1957.

Language: English

Pages: 344

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Yale University Press

Release: February 24, 1988

ISBN: 0300038275

ISBN 13: 9780300038279

David Bomberg

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Bomberg's career is a case study in neglect. The early popular canvases of this English painter buzzed with mechanistic imagery inspired by futurism. But after fighting on the front in World War I, he lost faith in the machine age. Living in Palestine in the 1920s, he forged a personal figurative style that culminated in such pictures as the remarkably panoramic and detailed Mount of Olives. In Toledo, where El Greco painted, Bomberg refined his expressive vision, an intensely physical response to the world. His menacing images of a WW II underground bomb silo swing between the abstract and representational. Naturalism won out in his Cornwall seascapes, pictures of Cyprus and St. Paul's Cathedral and in the semi-abstract late landscapes in which forces of day and night struggle for supremacy. Cork, a British art critic, has written the definitive monograph on an artist whose reputation has increased steadily since his death in 1957.

Language: English

Pages: 344

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Yale University Press

Release: February 24, 1988

ISBN: 0300038275

ISBN 13: 9780300038279

More books from Richard Cork

Art: The Whole Story

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Richard Long: Walking in Circles

4.1/5 ( ratings)

A Bitter Truth: Avant-Garde Art and the Great War

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Face to Face: Interviews With Artists

4.1/5 ( ratings)

David Bomberg: Exhibition Catalogue

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Callum Innes: From Memory

4.7/5 ( ratings)

Saints Alive: Michael Landy in the National Gallery

Vorticism And Its Allies: [Catalogue Of An Exhibition Organised By Richard Cork In Collaboration With The] Arts Council Of Great Britain, [Held At The] Hayward Gallery, London, 27 March 2 June 1974

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Michael Craig-Martin

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Jonathan Yeo In The Flesh

4.6/5 ( ratings)

History of the Saatchi Gallery

Everything Seemed Possible: Art in the 1970s

Phoenix: Architecture/Art/Regeneration

Anish Kapoor: Taratantara

Rebecca Salter: Into the Light of Things

Rachel Whiteread: walls doors floors [and] stairs

British Contemporary Art

Sean Henry: Conflux at Salisbury Cathedral

Jacob Epstein

Peter Howson: Bosnia

Rate this book!

Write a review?