Becoming Gustav Metzger : uncovering the early years, 1945-59 / edited by Nicola Baird.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baird, Nicola, editor.

Gustav Metzger Foundation, host institution.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metzger, Gustav.

Physical Description:

131 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Ben Uri Research Unit, 2021.

Summary:

Becoming Gustav Metzger, produced in association with The Gustav Metzger Foundation, is the first publication to examine the little-known formative years of refugee artist and activist Gustav Metzger (Nuremberg, Germany, 1926-London, England, 2017). Generously supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Association for Art History, Becoming Gustav Metzger includes original texts by Stephen Bann CBE (Emeritus Professor, University of Bristol), Andrew Wilson (Senior Curator Modern & Contemporary British Art, and Archives at Tate Britain), Dr. Elizabeth Fisher (Leverhulme Research Fellow, Northumbria University), Mathieu Copeland (independent curator and author of Gustav Metzger: Writings 1953-2016), and the curators. Fully illustrated, it also includes colour reproductions of rarely seen drawings and paintings from this crucial early period, as well as early abstract works on board and cardboard, and a kodak box. Together they chart Metzger's artistic journey from figuration to abstraction prior to the development of his later radical auto-destructive practice.

Contents:

Director's foreword / Sarah MacDougall

Introduction: Memories of Gustav Metzger / Stephen Bann

'There was so much that brought us together': David Bomberg and Gustav Metzger, 'the relationship of teacher and student' / Nicola Baird

Ethics into aesthetics: Gustav Metzger and the question of beauty / Dr Elizabeth Fisher

'Loops in time'

retrieving the works of Gustav Metzger / Andrew Wilson

Interview / Mathieu Copeland and Ula Dajerling

Gustav Metzger: a life in art / Leanne Dmyterko.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Contains:

Metzger, Gustav. Works. Selections

ISBN:

9780900157707

0900157704

OCLC:

1259526937