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Joan Eardley: A Sense of Place
Patrick Elliott
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Description for Joan Eardley: A Sense of Place
hardcover. A fresh perspective on Eardley's depictions of the children and the fishing village of Catterline through an examination of her working process. Num Pages: 128 pages, 100 colour, 15 b&w. BIC Classification: ACXD; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 282 x 14. Weight in Grams: 822.
Joan Eardley (1921-1963) is one of Scotland's most admired artists. During a career that lasted barely fifteen years, she concentrated on two very distinct themes: children in the Townhead area of central Glasgow, and the fishing village of Catterline, just south of Aberdeen, with its leaden skies and wild sea. The contrast between this urban and rural subject matter is self-evident, but the two are not, at heart, so very different. Townhead and Catterline were home to tight-knit communities, living under extreme pressure: Townhead suffered from overcrowding and poverty, and Catterline from depopulation brought about by the declining fishing industry. ... Read more
Joan Eardley (1921-1963) is one of Scotland's most admired artists. During a career that lasted barely fifteen years, she concentrated on two very distinct themes: children in the Townhead area of central Glasgow, and the fishing village of Catterline, just south of Aberdeen, with its leaden skies and wild sea. The contrast between this urban and rural subject matter is self-evident, but the two are not, at heart, so very different. Townhead and Catterline were home to tight-knit communities, living under extreme pressure: Townhead suffered from overcrowding and poverty, and Catterline from depopulation brought about by the declining fishing industry. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
National Galleries Of Scotland
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781911054023
SKU
V9781911054023
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-5
About Patrick Elliott
Patrick Elliott is Senior Curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh. He has written extensively on modern and contemporary art. Recent publications include The Amazing World of M.C. Escher, ISBN 9781906270889, 2015; Another World: Dali, Magritte, Miro and the Surrealists, ISBN 9781906270308, 2010; Tony Cragg, 2011; The Two Roberts: Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde, ISBN 9781906270742, 2014. ... Read more
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