How painting happens (and why it matters)

How painting happens (and why it matters) (Hardback)

Gayford, Martin (Author)

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£35.00

Drawing on decades of conversations with practising artists, Martin Gayford offers intimate insight into the practice, meaning and potential of painting. Reviews 'From El Greco to Picasso, Martin Gayford's How Painting Happens offers us an encyclopedic journey through art history' - Daily Telegraph'This book's strength is that it darts from the greats of art history's past - Gayford seems to have seen everything and thought deeply about all of it - to contemporary painters such as Oscar Murillo, Jadé Fadojutimi, Cecily Brown, Eric Fischl and Frank Bowling, to who...

ISBN (SKU)

9780500027424

Pages

384

Weight

1278g

Dimensions

246x255x44

Imprint

Thames and Hudson

Published

25, September, 2024

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