Hurvin Anderson / introduction by Courtney J. Martin ; essay by Catherine Lampert ; poems by Roger Robinson ; chronology by Jeff Alford and Jordan Bosher.
When does a painting start! Has it started yet? / Courtney J. Martin -- A cultivated field that is upright / Catherine Lampert -- Fifteen poems / Roger Robinson -- Plates -- List of works -- Chronology / Jeff Alford and Jordan Bosher -- Author biographies -- Acknowledgements. When does a painting start!: has it started yet? / Courtney J. Martin -- A cultivated field that is upright / Catherine Lampert -- Fifteen poems / Roger Robinson -- Plates -- List of works -- Chronology / Jeff Alford and Jordan Bosher.
Summary:
Turner Prize-nominated artist Hurvin Anderson is best known for his brightly painted, densely detailed landscapes and interior scenes, particularly those relating to his upbringing in the Afro-Caribbean community in the Midlands of England, as well as more recent trips to the Caribbean. Anderson's luscious paintings have hybridity at their heart. A tug-of-war plays out between abstraction and figuration, nature versus the manmade, beauty and menace, and his British and Jamaican heritage. Born in the United Kingdom as a member of the Jamaican diaspora, Anderson relates to the Caribbean as both insider and outsider, aware of the mythmaking that the idea of lost or future paradise generates. This book, Anderson's first major monograph, has been carefully curated by the artist himself and includes paintings, sketches, source material and ephemera, studio shots, and a series of black-and-white drawings created exclusively for this publication. The volume also features a foreword by Courtney J. Martin, an in-depth and deeply considered essay by art historian Catherine Lampert, poems by Roger Robinson, and an illustrated chronology.
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