Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Moorhouse, Paul
2. Hodgkin, Howard, 1932-2017.
3. National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain), host institution

Description

1. 216 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 26 x 29 cm

Summary

1. Hodgkin's art can be seen as providing memorials for people, many of whom are friends, whose absence is countered by the corresponding physical presence of particular paintings. Descriptive elements visible in his earlier portraits from the 1950s are subsumed within paintings that have, over the course of more than fifty years, become more psychologically charged, but no less connected with evoking specific individuals in particular situations. This book, like the exhibition it accompanies, surveys the development of Hodgkin's portraiture from its beginnings in 1949 to the present, including new paintings. Peter Blake, Stephen Buckley, Patrick Caulfield, David Hockney, Philip King, R. B. Kitaj and Richard Smith are among the many leading artists portrayed, so that the British art world emerges as the wider subject of Hodgkin's art. The book also contains a fully illustrated chronology and commentaries on individual work. Exhibition: National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (23.03.-18.06.2017).

Alternative title

1. Absent friends

Subject

1. Exhibition catalogs
2. Hodgkin, Howard, 1932-2017 > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.

Contents

1. Forewords -- Howard Hodgkin: absent friends -- Absent friends, 2000-1 -- Early portraits, 1949-59 -- Abstraction, 1960-7 -- Rethinking portraiture, 1966-76 -- Psychological space, 1974-5 -- A new visual language, 1977-84 -- Portraits of the artist and friends, 1983-93 -- Distillation of expression, 1993-2007 -- Portraits as gesture, 2008-14 -- Portraits as gesture, 2008-14 -- Recent work -- Chronology.

Call number

1. JQF 17-1483

Note

1. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 23 March-18 June 2017.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-207) and index.

Title

1. Howard Hodgkin : absent friends / Paul Moorhouse.

Publisher

1. London : National Portrait Gallery Publications, [2017]

Copyright date

1. ©2017

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-207) and index.

Added author

1. Moorhouse, Paul, author, organizer.
2. Hodgkin, Howard, 1932-2017. Works. Selections.
3. National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain), host institution.

ISBN

1. 1855147556 (hardback)
2. 9781855147553 (hardback)

Research call number

1. JQF 17-1483