The first major survey of the work of Ingrid Pollard, a British artist and photographer nominated for the Turner Prize 2022, who uses portraiture photography and traditional landscape imagery to explore social constructs such as Britishness and racial difference.
A major survey of Dame Laura Knight, first female Royal Academician and popular British artist of the 20th century.Laura Knight (1877–1970) was one of the most famous and popular English artists of the twentieth century. She was the first woman to have a solo exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, in 1965. In the following decades her realist style of painting fell out of fashion and her work become largely overlooked. A new generation has rediscovered her work, finding a contemporary resonance in her depictions of women at work, of people from marginalized communities and her contributions as a war artist.This beautifully illustrated book, which accompanies a major exhibition at MK Gallery, provides an overview of Knight's illustrious from her training at Nottingham Art School at the age of 13 and her time in North Yorkshire and Cornwall, to her visits to traveller communities and a segregated American hospital. It also features her circus, ballet and theatre scenes, paintings of women during the war and her late paintings of nature.The selection of over 160 works combines celebrated paintings with less known graphic and design works, including ceramics, jewellery and costumes that reflect the artist's enduring interest in the everyday activities of people from all walks of life.
La fascination des surréalistes pour les poupées et les machines humanoïdes se manifeste particulièrement dans l'œuvre de Hans Bellmer (1902-1975). Dans les années suivant 1933, en réaction au culte du corps des nazis, l'artiste crée des poupées troublantes en cire, bois, lin, plâtre et colle, qu'il habille de perruques et d'yeux en verre. Des photographies de ces figures au caractère fétichiste sont publiées dans le magazine surréaliste Minotaure et accueillies avec enthousiasme par le cercle d'André Breton. Les mises en scène du corps féminin, qui sous-tendent les célèbres constructions de poupées, deviennent le point de départ de ses travaux ultérieurs : dessins, photographies et graphismes. Profondément impliqué dans la discussion des thèses freudiennes, il explore des théories psychanalytiques sur l'hystérie et la transference, contribuant ainsi de manière significative à l'étude de la relation entre le langage et le corps.