Research Catalog

Title

Frank Bowling / edited by Elena Crippa.

Publication

London : Tate Publishing, 2019.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Crippa, Elena
• Tate Britain (Gallery), host institution.

Description

208 pages : illustrations (colour); 28 cm

Summary

Born in British Guiana in 1936, Frank Bowling arrived in Britain in his late teens, going on to study paiting at the the Royal College of Art in the same cohort as David Hockney and Derek Boshier. Since he started painting in the late 1950s, Bowling has pursued a relentless exploration of the properties and possibilities of paint, experimenting with stitching, staining, pouring and dripping. Often ambitious in scale, and usually described in terms of its colourful and luminous quality, and the energetic application or accrual of paint, Bowling's work combines figuration, abstract elements, popular and autobiographical references, and demonstrates his interest in social and political imagery. Accompanying what will be the first solo exhibition internationally to address Bowling's entire oeuvre, this publication will explore an extraordinary career spanning over 60 years.00Exhibition: Tate Britain, London, UK (31.05.-26.08.2019).

Subjects

• Painting
• Bowling, Frank, 1936-
• Bowling, Frank, 1936- > Criticism and interpretation
• Painting, Abstract > England > Exhibitions
• Painting > Guyana > Exhibitions
• Painters, Black > England > London > Exhibitions
• Bowling, Frank, 1936- > Exhibitions
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Exhibition catalogs
• Guyana

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Tate Britain, London, 31 May-26 August 2019.

Contents

Frank Bowling: the possibilities of paint are never-ending / Elena Crippa -- Image in revolt: Bowling in London 1959-66 / Chris Stephens -- Social, material, otherness: Bowling's map paintings 1966-71 / Courtney J. Martin -- Bowling takes his chances / Richard Shiff -- Plasticity, change and thingness: into the 1980s / Elena Crippa -- Witness to life: Bowling in the studio / Matthew Collings -- From substrate to the riverbed / Sonia Boyce -- Works -- Chronology / Laura Castagnini.

Call Number

Sc+ F 19-354

ISBN

• 1849766282
• 9781849766289

OCLC

1054221511

Title

Frank Bowling / edited by Elena Crippa.

Publisher

London : Tate Publishing, 2019.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Crippa, Elena, editor.

Tate Britain (Gallery), host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc+ F 19-354