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Title: WILLIAM ORPEN
POLITICS, SEX AND DEATH
By: Robert Upstone, R. F. Foster, David Fraser Jenkins
Format: Hardback

List price: £37.00


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ISBN 10: 0856675962
ISBN 13: 9780856675966
Publisher: PHILIP WILSON PUBLISHERS LTD
Pub. date: 11 February, 2005
Pages: 160
Description: Through his prestigious portrait commissions, membership of the Royal Academy and his knighthood, Orpen became part of the British establishment, but always asserted his sense of Irish identity. His experiences as an official war artist haunted him and made him cynical of politicians.
Synopsis: One of the great British artists of the first quarter of the twentieth century, Sir William Orpen (1878-1931) is an intriguing artist who, despite his career as a highly successful portrait painter, remains something of an outsider. Although Orpen is represented in many public collections in the UK, Ireland and the USA, his work does not fit easily into the conventional moulds of art history. This highly illustrated monograph critically reappraises an artist who, at the time of his death, was probably the best-known painter in Britain. T he book reveals the full variety of Orpen's work, from his revitalization of the nude and his conversation pieces to his extraordinary allegories and war paintings, and analyses the series of self-portraits that are a particular feature of his oeuvre. A Protestant born near Dublin, when Ireland was part of Britain, Orpen went to art school there before going on to the Slade in London, where he was one of the stars of its great period. Through his prestigious portrait commissions, membership of the Royal Academy and his knighthood, he became part of the British establishment, but always asserted his sense of Irish identity.His experiences as an official war artist haunted him and made him cynical of politicians. Although he painted brilliant portraits of these very men, and of generals and war heroes, he also produced some bitter allegories of the lives of soldiers that still appear disturbing and surreal. This major re-assessment of the artist accompanies a retrospective exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, London (27 January - 2 May 2005), and at the National Gallery of Art, Dublin.
Illustrations: 100 colour & 25 b/w illustrations
Publication: UK
Imprint: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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