Anthony Earnshaw : the imp of surrealism / edited by Les Coleman.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Sheffield : RGAP (Research Group for Artists' Publications), 2011.
Description
191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

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    Summary note
    "With its many voices, views, and opinions, this book offers a comprhensive overview of the work of artist and autodidact, Anthony Earnshaw (1924-2001). As a free-thinking maverick, Earnshaw preferred to plough the marginalised furrows of an art world, to which he maintained a distinct ambivalence. Influenced by Surrealism, jazz, and poetry in postwar Britain, his restless and rebellious temperament would find spiritual reassurance in the principles and philosophy of the anarchist movement. As a nonconformist, at odds with the values of Western capitalism, Earnshaw recognised that to explore his imagination was liberating. He embarked on a lifetime of creative activity which found form in an extraordinary range of work including: drawings, paintings, poetry and writing, comic strips and illustrated novels, boxed assemblages, and constructed letterforms."--Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-188).
    Creation/​Production credits
    Includes text by Michel Remy, Gail Earnshaw, Dawn Ades, Les Coleman, and James Heartfield and Patrick Hughes.
    Contents
    • Includes: The contagious surrealist / Michel Rémy
    • The boy in the man / Gail Earnshaw
    • Surrealism discovers Earnshaw / Dawn Ades
    • Wolves at the door of the mind / Michael Richardson
    • Unwriting the rules / George Hardie
    • On 25 poses / Paul Hammond
    • Wokker's world / Roger Sabin
    • His subjects are our objects / James Heartfield and Patrick Hughes
    • Poison pen drawings / Les Coleman
    • A cottage in the city / Chris Vine
    • A miscellany: Earnshaviana
    • Collected writings / Anthony Earnshaw.
    ISBN
    • 9780955827389
    • 0955827388
    LCCN
    2011508514
    OCLC
    760091976
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