Hurvin Anderson

This is the first comprehensive overview of the career to date of British artist Hurvin Anderson (b.1965). Anderson is known for painting loosely rendered 'observations' of scenes and spaces loaded with personal or communal meaning. Anderson's painting style is notable for the ease with which he slips between figuration and abstraction, playing with the tropes of earlier landscape traditions and 20th century abstraction. His paintings of barbershop interiors, country tennis clubs, and tropical roadsides teem with rich brushwork and multitudes of decorative patterns or architectural features, at once obscuring and adding to underlying ruminations on identity and place. Drawing on interviews with the artist, Michael J. Prokopow offers a critical assessment of Hurvin Anderson's painting practice to date that will be enlightening for all students, dealers, and collectors of contemporary painting.

Author: Michael J. Prokopow
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Published: 10/01/2021
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.42lbs
Size: 11.26h x 9.53w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9781848224773
ISBN10: 184822477X
BISAC Categories:
- Art | History | Contemporary (1945- )
- Art | Individual Artists | Monographs

About the Author
Michael J. Prokopow is an historian and curator. He has published widely on contemporary expressive culture, critical theory, modernism, and aesthetics. He divides his time between London and Toronto where he is a faculty member at OCAD University. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University.