Hurvin Anderson

Hurvin Anderson

By Michael J. Prokopow

£45.00

Publication Date: 7th June 2021

  • Winner of the Historians of British Art Book Award in 2023 for Exemplary Scholarship on the Contemporary Period
This is the first comprehensive overview of the career to date of British artist Hurvin Anderson (b.1965). Anderson is known for painting loosely rendered ‘observations’ of scenes and spaces loaded with personal or communal meaning.

Anderson’s painting style is notable for the ease with which he slips between figuration and abstraction, playing with the tropes of earlier landscape traditions and 20th-century abstraction. His paintings of barbershop interiors, country tennis clubs and tropical roadsides teem with rich brushwork and multitudes of decorative patterns or architectural fea... Read More
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  • Winner of the Historians of British Art Book Award in 2023 for Exemplary Scholarship on the Contemporary Period
This is the first comprehensive overview of the career to date of British artist Hurvin Anderson (b.1965). Anderson is known for painting loosely rendered ‘observations’ of scenes and spaces loaded with personal or communal meaning.

Anderson’s painting style is notable for the ease with which he slips between figuration and abstraction, playing with the tropes of earlier landscape traditions and 20th-century abstraction. His paintings of barbershop interiors, country tennis clubs and tropical roadsides teem with rich brushwork and multitudes of decorative patterns or architectural fea... Read More
Description
This is the first comprehensive overview of the career to date of British artist Hurvin Anderson (b.1965). Anderson is known for painting loosely rendered ‘observations’ of scenes and spaces loaded with personal or communal meaning.

Anderson’s painting style is notable for the ease with which he slips between figuration and abstraction, playing with the tropes of earlier landscape traditions and 20th-century abstraction. His paintings of barbershop interiors, country tennis clubs and tropical roadsides teem with rich brushwork and multitudes of decorative patterns or architectural features, at once obscuring and adding to underlying ruminations on identity and place.

Drawing on interviews with the artist, Michael J. Prokopow offers a critical assessment of Hurvin Anderson’s painting practice to date that will be enlightening for all students, dealers and collectors of contemporary painting.
Details
  • Pages: 144
  • Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
  • Series: Contemporary Painters Series
  • Publication Date: 7th June 2021
  • Trim Size: 24 x 28 cm
  • Illustration Note: Includes 100 colour illustrations
  • ISBN: 9781848224773
Reviews
'Written with clarity, care and precision, this monograph is hugely welcome. It is the first to give in-depth attention to an artist whose eloquent touch has revitalized painting in a moment when our perception of landscape and our attachment to a sense of place grows ever more complex in light of transnational migrations and the fragile ecology of our planet.' - Kobena Mercer, author of 'Travel & See: Black Diaspora Practices since the 1980s'
'Hurvin Anderson is in many ways a painter both of our time and for our time, able to lend abstraction and representation in equal measures of surety and wonder. Prokopow offers the first substantial exploration of Anderson's nearly three-decade practice in a manner that replicates the deep examination that his paintings require of and ignite for the viewer. This is a thoughtful, careful text that has superbly brought forth a painter of similar description.' - Courtney J. Martin
Author Bio
Michael J. Prokopow is an historian and curator. He has published widely on contemporary expressive culture, critical theory, modernism and aesthetics. He divides his time between London and Toronto where he is a faculty member at OCAD University. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Table of Contents
Prologue: 'To be Constantly Aware'; Chapter 1: 'Where Cultures Meet or Don't Meet'; Chapter 2: 'A Shared Elsewhere'; Chapter 3: 'A Sense of Somebodiness'; Chapter 4: 'Gardening in the Tropics'; Epilogue: 'Uninhibited Dialogue'; Selected Bibliography; Education; Awards/Fellowships/Commissions; Solo Exhibitions; Group Exhibitions; Public Collections; Acknowledgements; Index
Video

Hurvin Anderson - 'It's questioning my history, my place' - Tate - YouTube

This is the first comprehensive overview of the career to date of British artist Hurvin Anderson (b.1965). Anderson is known for painting loosely rendered ‘observations’ of scenes and spaces loaded with personal or communal meaning.

Anderson’s painting style is notable for the ease with which he slips between figuration and abstraction, playing with the tropes of earlier landscape traditions and 20th-century abstraction. His paintings of barbershop interiors, country tennis clubs and tropical roadsides teem with rich brushwork and multitudes of decorative patterns or architectural features, at once obscuring and adding to underlying ruminations on identity and place.

Drawing on interviews with the artist, Michael J. Prokopow offers a critical assessment of Hurvin Anderson’s painting practice to date that will be enlightening for all students, dealers and collectors of contemporary painting.
  • Pages: 144
  • Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
  • Series: Contemporary Painters Series
  • Publication Date: 7th June 2021
  • Trim Size: 24 x 28 cm
  • Illustrations Note: Includes 100 colour illustrations
  • ISBN: 9781848224773
'Written with clarity, care and precision, this monograph is hugely welcome. It is the first to give in-depth attention to an artist whose eloquent touch has revitalized painting in a moment when our perception of landscape and our attachment to a sense of place grows ever more complex in light of transnational migrations and the fragile ecology of our planet.' - Kobena Mercer, author of 'Travel & See: Black Diaspora Practices since the 1980s'
'Hurvin Anderson is in many ways a painter both of our time and for our time, able to lend abstraction and representation in equal measures of surety and wonder. Prokopow offers the first substantial exploration of Anderson's nearly three-decade practice in a manner that replicates the deep examination that his paintings require of and ignite for the viewer. This is a thoughtful, careful text that has superbly brought forth a painter of similar description.' - Courtney J. Martin
Michael J. Prokopow is an historian and curator. He has published widely on contemporary expressive culture, critical theory, modernism and aesthetics. He divides his time between London and Toronto where he is a faculty member at OCAD University. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Prologue: 'To be Constantly Aware'; Chapter 1: 'Where Cultures Meet or Don't Meet'; Chapter 2: 'A Shared Elsewhere'; Chapter 3: 'A Sense of Somebodiness'; Chapter 4: 'Gardening in the Tropics'; Epilogue: 'Uninhibited Dialogue'; Selected Bibliography; Education; Awards/Fellowships/Commissions; Solo Exhibitions; Group Exhibitions; Public Collections; Acknowledgements; Index

Hurvin Anderson - 'It's questioning my history, my place' - Tate - YouTube

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