本书伴随着英国艺术核心人物之一的大型展览而出版。而这是60 多年来西克特在泰特美术馆举办的第一次大型回顾展。沃尔特·西克特(Walter Sickert)是英国后印象派的代表性艺术家之一,其作品对20世纪中后期的英国前卫艺术产生了重要影响。他早年在印象派画家惠斯勒(Whistler)的工作室学习,后来与德加(Degas)等人成为朋友。 本书将探讨西克特如何以激进、独特的方式处理背景和主题,从绘画中汲取灵感,来描绘对日常生活的看法。本书将探讨他作品的性质变化——从19世纪80年代的印象主义方法到1930年代对摄影的开创性使用——以及他如何一次又一次地返回到地点和主题,包括他具有穿透力的自画像。西克特从新闻和时事中汲取灵感,如卡姆登镇谋杀案和报纸摄影,也在流行文化——音乐厅、舞台、电影和名人的崛起中汲取灵感。本书收录了展览中的200多张图片和学者们的大量文章,以及包括凯·多纳奇(Kaye Donachie)和索玛亚·克里奇洛(Somaya Critchlow)在内的部分当代画家对西克特的相关性和影响力的思考。 To accompany a major exhibition of one of the central figures in British art and the first exhibition dedicated to Sickert at Tate since 1960. Walter Sickert was one of the most influential artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An apprentice of Whistler and close associate of Degas, he engaged with the work of French artists of the time. Sickert in turn influenced many British painters up to the present day. This book will show how Sickert transformed the representation of everyday life, with his innovative approach to subject matter, radical compositions and the evocation of the materiality of existence in paint. It will explore the changing nature of his work – from an impressionistic approach in the 1880s to a pioneering use of photography in the 1930s – and how he returned over and over to locations and subjects, including his penetrating self-portraits. Sickert's imagination was fuelled by news and current events such as the Camden Town Murders and newspaper photography, but also by popular culture – music halls, the stage, the rise of cinema and celebrity. Featuring over 200 images from the exhibition and a wide range of essays by scholars, as well as reflections on Sickert's relevance and influence by a selection of contemporary painters including Kaye Donachie and Somaya Critchlow.
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