David Breuer-Weil : Radical Visionary Hardback
by Monica Bohm-Duchen, James Hyman, Ben Hanly, Susie Stanton Staikos, Richard Aronowicz, Simon Blomfield, John Russell Taylor
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The first complete monograph devoted to the work of one of Britain’s most powerful and original contemporary artists.
David Breuer-Weil studied at the Central Saint Martins School of Art and Clare College, Cambridge.
From the late 1980’s until the late 1990’s he worked as a specialist in Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art at Sotheby’s, London and as a curator for de Pury and Luxembourg Art in Geneva.
He subsequently embarked on the epic series of apocalyptic works now known as the Project, over three hundred monumental paintings, a cycle that is arguably one of the most profound and consistent achievements in recent British painting.
His determination to produce an art that deals with momentous and challenging themes is a reaction to a world he knows well, in which “art often seems to be reduced to a commodity”: “In my own work I consciously avoided the high polish, commercial, slick look of much contemporary art.
I wanted to produce colossal, un-commercialized images of existential doubt”.
This lavishly illustrated monograph presents a collection of paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations and studio shots.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:400 pages, Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout
- Publisher:Skira
- Publication Date:15/08/2011
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- ISBN:9788857208633
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:400 pages, Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout
- Publisher:Skira
- Publication Date:15/08/2011
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- ISBN:9788857208633