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The Art and Life of Josef Herman: 'In Labour My Spirit Finds Itself', 2009, NF
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- ISBN
- 9780853319450
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Lund Humphries Publishers, The Limited
ISBN-10
0853319456
ISBN-13
9780853319450
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71728467
Product Key Features
Book Title
Art and Life of Josef Herman : in Labour My Spirit Finds Itself
Number of Pages
200 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Cultural Heritage, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Individual Artists / Monographs, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Length
10.2 in
Item Width
8.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
759.2
Synopsis
Born in Warsaw in 1911 into a working-class Jewish family, Josef Herman arrived in Britain (via Belgium) in 1940, settling first in Glasgow and then in the South Welsh mining village of Ystradgynlais. By the early 1950s, known mainly for his images of Welsh miners, he had established himself as a major figure in contemporary British art and his work featured prominently in the 1951 Festival of Britain. By the end of the decade, examples of his work had entered virtually every important public collection in the UK. Further public recognition came in 1981, when he was awarded an OBE, and in 1990, when he was elected a Royal Academician.Herman was no follower of fashion, however, and throughout his long life remained true to his conviction that art and morality should never be far apart, that technique, though important, should always be subservient to subject-matter, and that working men and women - whether in Poland, Wales, Burgundy, Suffolk or Mexico - embody a profound and universal human archetype.This monograph is the first book to look at all aspects and phases of Herman's career in equal detail, and to place his life and work in a broader cultural context. Generously illustrated, it includes images both familiar and unfamiliar, some of them - as the result of the author's extensive researches - reproduced for the very first time. It aims both to introduce this important artist to a new public, and to reveal a creative spirit of far greater diversity and complexity than even Herman's longstanding admirers will have suspected., Born in Warsaw in 1911 into a working-class Jewish family, Josef Herman arrived in Britain (via Belgium) in 1940, settling first in Glasgow and then in the South Welsh mining village of Ystradgynlais. By the early 1950s, known mainly for his images of Welsh miners, he had established himself as a major figure in contemporary British art, and by the end of the decade examples of his work had entered virtually every important public collection in the UK. This monograph is the first book to look at all aspects and phases of Herman's career in equal detail, and to place his life and work in a broader cultural context. It aims both to introduce this important artist to a new public, and to reveal an artist of far greater diversity and complexity than even Herman's longstanding admirers will have suspected.
LC Classification Number
ND497
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