| Description |
184 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm |
| Summary |
Keith Vaughan (1912-77) was a major figure in post-war British art who is known for his searching portraits of the male nude and his association with the Neo-Romantic painters. This book provides for the first time a definitive, illustrated account of his life and work, exploring his wide-ranging achievement as a modern British artist. Drawing on Vaughan's considerable writings, Philip Vann explores the many aspects of the artist's personal, professional and philosophical-inner life. His text interweaves art-critical and biographical exploration to reveal a figure for whom art was inseparable from the nature of its creator. He reviews Vaughan's large body of paintings, drawings and illustrations: his early Neo-Romantic paintings of male bathers and boys in semi-abstracted landscapes, his post-war illustrations of young men immersed in elegiac contemplation of the landscape, and his later gouaches and landscapes. A fascinating essay by Gerard Hastings provides a close-up examination of Vaughan's gouache technique. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Paul and Mary Haas. |
| Subject |
Vaughan, Keith, 1912-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Vaughan, Keith, 1912-1977. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Male nude in art.
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Male nude in art. |
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Landscapes in art.
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Landscapes in art. |
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Vaughan, Keith, 1912-1977. |
| Added Author |
Hastings, Gerard.
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| ISBN |
9781848220973 |
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1848220979 |
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