Albert Irvin and abstract expressionism
By: curated by Stewart Geddes, PRWA
Publisher: Sansom & Co.
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Bristol
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9781911408291
Subjects: Exhibitions; Abstract expressionism; Art and Design
Description: Albert Irvin and American Abstract Expressionism', published to accompany a major exhibition at the RWA, Bristol, will look at the implication of the 1959 Tate Exhibition?The New American Painting? on the work of one of Britain?s best loved colourist and abstract artists - Albert Irvin RA.?The New American Painting? was the first time the Abstract Expressionists were shown in Britain en masse. It shifted the attention from Paris to New York as the centre for advanced tendencies in the visual arts. The scale and gestural flourish of the American works was enormously significant in the development of a generation of younger British artists, including Irvin. He went on to have a highly successful career as an artist and lecturer at Goldsmiths College, London.00Exhibition: RWA, Bristol, UK (08.12.2018 - 03.03.2019).
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, 8 December 2018-3 March 2019.

Includes bibliographical references.