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Title: Antony Donaldson: Up to Now
Author: FAROUX RENAUD
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/09/2020
Imprint: GILES
Price: $75.00
Publishing status: Active
The first major retrospective of the work of British Pop Artist Antony Donaldson.
Although he never studied at the Royal College of Art, Antony Donaldson’s friendships with RCA
students Patrick Caulfield, Allen Jones and Peter Phillips put him firmly in the vanguard of the Pop
Art movement in London in the 1960s. Born in 1939, Donaldson was chosen in 1964 for the
landmark New Generation exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery which included Allen Jones and
David Hockney and he became the first Pop Artist to sell his work to the Tate.
Like Hockney, Donaldson dreamed of a quiet and relaxed life in southern California and moved to
Los Angeles between 1966 and 1968, where he painted daringly simple compositions using
saturated colour and sensual forms.
In later years Donaldson took up sculpture in a variety of media; his most famous piece is the
giant Buddha-like head of Alfred Hitchcock, Master of Suspense, in the courtyard of the
Gainsborough Film Studios in London.
This monograph includes an illustrated chronology, an exhibition checklist and a bibliography.
Blingual French and English.
220 colour illustrations
ISBN: 9781911282839
Dimension: 310mm X 235mm