Humphrey Ocean Hardback
by Ben Thomas
Hardback
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Over five decades, the painter Humphrey Ocean RA's work has filtered into our national culture.
This includes his series of portraits entitled A handbook of modern life displayed at the National Portrait Gallery in 2013; his portrait of Christopher Le Brun, President of the Royal Academy of Arts; and the cover of Sir Paul McCartney's 2007 album Memory Almost Full, which featured one of the Chair series. Ocean's practice encompasses painting, printmaking, sculpture, book-making and drawing.
Of the last, he has said: 'Paper is lovely, immediate and personal.
I draw as an end in itself.' In 2019 his exhibition 'Birds, Cars and Chairs' is on display at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Of these subjects, he says: 'Birds, cars and chairs are, in that order, ancient, modern and intimate.
Without them life would be a lot less bearable.'These works are reproduced alongside others in the book to provide a fascinating overview of Ocean's career, with an essay by Ben Thomas, which sets out to discover exactly what it is that makes Ocean's art so appealing and universal.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:336 pages, 250 colour
- Publisher:Royal Academy of Arts
- Publication Date:01/09/2019
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- ISBN:9781912520268
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:336 pages, 250 colour
- Publisher:Royal Academy of Arts
- Publication Date:01/09/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781912520268