Frank Auerbach: Paintings and Drawings 1954-2001 [Paperback]

Catherine Lampert (Author), Norman Rosenthal (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2001

A Royal Academy of Arts Publication
"Auerbach's work . . . reminds us that painting may still connect us to the whole body of the world, being more than just a conduit for debate about novelty, cultural signs and stylistic relations."
-Robert Hughes

Frank Auerbach's world is London, his home since 1947. The German-born figurative painter (b. 1931) depicts the city and its inhabitants in thick, energetic, brilliantly colored brush strokes. His work, which includes landscapes and portraits that recall the Old Masters, has earned him a place among contemporaries such as Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, and R. B. Kitaj.

This book is published to accompany a retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. With essays on the works, their place in Western art, and on the painter and his sitters, it brings Auerbach's art to a wider audience.
110 illustrations in full color, 160 pages, 95/8 x 111/4"

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About the Author

Catherine Lampert, outgoing director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, and curator of the 1978 Hayward Gallery exhibition of Auerbach's work, has sat for the painter for the past 22 years.
Norman Rosenthal, exhibitions secretary at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, has contributed to many books and exhibition catalogues, including Abrams' Apocalypse.
Isabel Carlisle is an exhibitions curator at the Royal Academy of Arts.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Royal Academy Books (September 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0810967375
• ISBN-13: 978-0810967373
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 9.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,085,871 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars real painting, November 17, 2001

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This review is from: Frank Auerbach: Paintings and Drawings 1954-2001 (Paperback)

Having just seen the show that this text accompanies, I can highly recommend this catalog to those painters and viewers who enjoy Auerbach's work. As with all reproductions of wonderfull paintings these ones are not able to convey the physical/visual illusion contained in the work. They are very good however and the accompaning text informative. Auerbach has already created a great body of work and seeing it across the hall from an amazing Rembrandt exhibit, also at the Royal Academy, gives hope to the future of painting when it's obituary is beeing written tacitly by so many.