Keith Vaughan : figure and ground, drawings, prints and photographs 1935-1962 /
Cruise, Colin,editor of compilation.
This book brings together two themes that preoccupied Keith Vaughan - the human figure and pictorial space. This survey embraces works from his early experiments with photography and his Neo-Romantic designs and drawings, and includes his lithographic prints of the 1950s and 1960s, ending at the time when Vaughan's work was the subject of a major retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1962. The term 'Ground' suggests some of the formal concerns that began to preoccupy Vaughan in the mid-1950s and early 1960s - the abstracted human figure, musical composition and pictorial space rather than a representation of the land, however poetic, that had pre-occupied him in the 1940s and early 1950s.
Published to coincide with the exhibition 'Keith Vaughan: Figure and Ground Drawings Prints and Photographs 1936-62' at National Museum Wales, Cardiff, July-November 2013 and The Tessa Sidey Gallery, The School of Art, Aberystwyth University, February-March 2014.
Includes bibliographical references (page 95).
This book brings together two themes that preoccupied Keith Vaughan - the human figure and pictorial space. This survey embraces works from his early experiments with photography and his Neo-Romantic designs and drawings, and includes his lithographic prints of the 1950s and 1960s, ending at the time when Vaughan's work was the subject of a major retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1962. The term 'Ground' suggests some of the formal concerns that began to preoccupy Vaughan in the mid-1950s and early 1960s - the abstracted human figure, musical composition and pictorial space rather than a representation of the land, however poetic, that had pre-occupied him in the 1940s and early 1950s.
Vaughan, Keith, 1912-1977.