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SUMMARY:Martin Gayford – How Painting Happens (and why it matters)
DESCRIPTION:In the words of the late Gillian Ayres\, this is a book about “what can be done with painting.” Drawing on decades of conversations with practicing painters\, acclaimed author Martin Gayford offers intimate insight into the practice\, meaning\, and potential of this timeless medium. \n\n\n\nAs a way of making images\, pigment applied to any surface from cave wall to canvas\, painting has been around for tens of thousands of years. Yet it has proved capable of endless renewal. Now in the third decade of the twenty-first century it is once more at the forefront of contemporary art. How Painting Happens will consider how and why this is so\, examining this perennial medium through the eyes of its exponents past and present. \n\n\n\nMartin Gayford will draw on interviews carried out over more than two decades with\, among many others\, Frank Auerbach\, Gillian Ayres\, Georg Baselitz\, Frank Bowling\, Richard Estes\, Lucian Freud\, Katharina Fritsch\, Rebecca Horn\, Shirazeh Houshiary\, Lee Ufan\, Paula Rego\, Bridget Riley\, Jenny Saville\, Frank Stella\, Hiroshi Sugimoto\, Wayne Thiebaud\, Luc Tuymans\, and Zeng Fanzhi. \n\n\n\nThese diverse artists talk about how they work\, the different routes by which they came to be painters\, their contemporaries\, and predecessors. With painters’ insight they discuss such previous exponents of the brush as Titian\, El Greco\, Edward Hopper\, Suzanne Valadon\, Petrus Christus\, Van Gogh\, Degas\, Klee\, and Delacroix. \n\n\n\nAltogether\, this book presents a fresh\, multidimensional perspective on the medium—so ancient and yet simultaneously so modern\, and still capable of doing things no other art form can. \n\n\n\nPraise for How Painting Happens:Critic and art historian Martin Gayford’s How Painting Happens (And Why it Matters) (Thames & Hudson) was hailed by Stephen Smith at the Financial Times: “Stimulating and sumptuously illustrated\, How Painting Happens is really two books in one\, a double-sided canvas. The ‘recto’\, as art world types would dub the ‘front’ side\, depicts humankind’s steady upward progress\, from scratches on a cave wall to the glorious\, inexhaustible possibilities of paint and beyond.” The Irish Times’ Gemma Tipton wrote that “How Painting Happens succeeds in providing keys to unlocking the puzzles of painting”\, as both a “erudite and insightful” read. Writing for the New Statesman\, Andrew Marr noted: “This is as clear a piece of writing about the experience of looking at a great painting as I have ever read.’  \n\n\n\nMartin Gayford is a writer and art critic. His books include Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud; Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon\, Freud\, Hockney and the London Painters; A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen and Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy\, both with David Hockney; Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now\, with Antony Gormley; Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud\, 1939-1954\, with David Dawson; and Venice: City of Pictures. \n\n\n\nKindly sponsored by Duke’s Auctioneers \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/martin-gayford-how-painting-happens/
LOCATION:Dorset Museum\, High West Street\, Dorchester\, DT1 1XA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Michael Peppiatt - Francis Bacon: a Self-Portrait in Words
DESCRIPTION:A new collection of letters\, statements\, studio notes and interviews reveals the innermost thoughts of Francis Bacon\, one of the 20th century’s most influential artists. Expertly annotated by Michael Peppiatt\, the documents selected for Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words illustrate Bacon’s sharp wit and ability to express complex ideas in highly personal\, memorable language. Split into four sections – Statements\, Letters\, Studio Notes and Selected Interviews – the book includes a large selection of letters to friends\, patrons and fellow artists\, as well as Bacon’s artist statements\, lists of paintings under way\, intriguing notes and interviews\, many of which have only come to light since his death. Bacon’s letters mirror and reveal his dominant preoccupations at different points throughout his long career\, with most of them having never been published before. Recipients range from Lucian Freud to Graham Sutherland\, and collectors Robert and Lisa Sainsbury to gangster Ronnie Kray\, as well as to many close friends and Peppiatt himself. Together with photographs\, archive material and works by the artist are numerous reproductions of Bacon’s characteristic handwriting\, from the briefest jottings and notes to more extensive letters and statements. Bacon frequently came up with memorable epithets and definitions. He delighted in doing with words what he set out to do in painting: ‘I like phrases that cut me.’ Michael Peppiatt explores the personal legacy of one of the 20th century’s most important painters\, presenting a compelling verbal self-portrait that reveals both man and artist. \n\n\n\nMichael Peppiatt is a well-known writer and curator\, who began his career as an art critic in London and Paris in the 1960s. Described by The Art Newspaper as ‘the best art writer of his generation’\, his previous books include Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma\, Francis Bacon in Your Blood and Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/michael-peppiat-francis-bacon-a-self-portrait-in-words/
LOCATION:Dorset Museum\, High West Street\, Dorchester\, DT1 1XA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Gavin Pretor-Pinney – Cloud Spotting For Beginners
DESCRIPTION:An introduction to the wondrous world of clouds\, by the internationally bestselling founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society and a prize-winning children’s book author and illustrator.Have you ever watched a cloud being born?Clouds come in all manner of shapes and sizes\, from low-lying Stratus to high-flying Cirrus via roll clouds\, banner clouds and tornados. This beautifully illustrated guide reveals the facts\, secrets and stories of all the major cloud types\, and how they shape the weather around them. We learn their fancy Latin names\, explore the parts of the sky where they like to hang out\, marvel at the ways they play with sunlight – and even visit them on other planets\, where they are sometimes made of acid.Cloudspotting for Beginners will inspire curious minds with a lifelong sense of meteorological wonder. \n\n\n\nGavin Pretor-Pinney is founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society\, which has more than 47\,000 members in 120 countries. He is the author of the internationally bestselling Cloudspotter’s Guide and Cloud Collector’s Handbook. His third book\, The Wavewatcher’s Companion\, won the prestigious Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. Gavin is a TED Global speaker with over 1.2 million views. He has presented television documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4 and is a Visiting Fellow at the Meteorology Department of Reading University and winner of the Royal Meteorological Society’s Michael Hunt award. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/gavin-pretor-pinney-cloud-spotting-for-beginners/
LOCATION:Dorset Museum\, High West Street\, Dorchester\, DT1 1XA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Jack Cornish – The Lost Paths
DESCRIPTION:A History of How we Walk From Here to There \n\n\n\n\n\nA journey across Britain’s millennia-old network of pathways\, revealing key moments throughout our history. \n\n\n\nHundreds of thousands of miles of paths reach into\, and connect\, communities across England and Wales. By 2026\, 10\,000 miles of undiscovered footpaths around Britain stand to be lost. Jack Cornish has dedicated the last five years of his life to walking these forgotten routes\, and this book\, The Lost Paths\, is the result. \n\n\n\nFootpaths\, tracks\, country lanes and urban streets illuminate how our ancestors interacted with and shaped their landscapes in the pursuit of commerce\, salvation\, escape\, war\, and leisure. Paths are an often overlooked part of our everyday life and our country’s history\, crucial to understanding the cultural and environmental history of us in the landscape. \n\n\n\nAfter dedicating his time and energy to fighting for their survival\, The Lost Paths is Jack’s personal journey and exploration of the deep history of English and Welsh footways. This narrative history takes us through ancient forests\, exposed mountainsides\, urban back streets and coastal vistas to reveal how this millennia-old network was created and has been transformed. \n\n\n\nThis is a celebration of an ancient network and a rallying cry to reclaim what has been lost and preserve it for future generations. \n\n\n\nJack Cornish is head of paths at the Ramblers\, Britain’s largest walking charity\, withover 100\,000 members. In 2017\, he walked across the country from Land’s End to John O’Groats\, and is ten years into a (probably futile) attempt to walk every street in London. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/jack-cornish-the-lost-paths/
LOCATION:Dorset Museum\, High West Street\, Dorchester\, DT1 1XA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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