{"title":"Peter Blake","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeter Blake (born 1932, Dartford) is a British painter whose practice became foundational to the development of British Pop Art through its incorporation of popular imagery, vernacular typography, and the iconography of entertainment, sport and music-hall culture. Working from the late 1950s alongside Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi, he developed a distinctive figurative mode that drew on fairgrounds, wrestlers, pin-ups and toy-shop display, culminating in the cover design for the Beatles' \u003cem\u003eSgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band\u003c\/em\u003e in 1967. He was a founder member of the Brotherhood of Ruralists in 1975 and was elected a Royal Academician in 1981; a major retrospective was held at Tate Gallery, London, in 1983, with subsequent surveys at Tate Liverpool in 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"jeffrey-spalding-abcs-of-pop-art-america-britain-canada-fsu-2000","title":"JEFFREY SPALDING — ABCs of Pop Art: America, Britain, Canada, Museum of Fine Arts FSU, 2000","description":"\u003cp\u003eJeffrey Spalding, \u003cem\u003eABCs of Pop Art: America, Britain, Canada — Major Artists and Their Legacy\u003c\/em\u003e. Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 2000. Square paperback; 64 pages, 21 × 21 cm; colour and black-and-white offset printing; metallic silver wrappers. ISBN 1-889282-07-3.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA compact institutional survey of Pop Art organised alphabetically across artists from America, Britain and Canada. Reproductions are paired with short biographical and collection records, turning a sprawling movement into a sequence of discrete, easily circulated entries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom America: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg anchor the canonical history, alongside Tom Wesselmann, Arman, George Segal, Robert Indiana, Chuck Close, Richard Estes, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Jenny Holzer, Alex Katz, David Salle, Wayne Thiebaud and David Gilhooly. From Britain: Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake and Eduardo Paolozzi as founding figures, with Patrick Caulfield, Allen Jones, R. B. Kitaj, Joe Tilson, Peter Phillips, John Latham, Bruce McLean, Tony Cragg and Michael Craig-Martin. From Canada: Iain Baxter, Michael Snow and Joyce Wieland as central figures, alongside David Buchan, Greg Curnoe, Gathie Falk, Dennis Burton, Attila Richard Lukacs, Tony Urquhart, John Will, David Gilhooly, Chris Cran and Russell Yuristy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe design is particularly of its moment: metallic silver covers, red-and-blue consumer imagery, outlined typography and an interior somewhere between exhibition catalogue, directory and reference manual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePop Art reorganised as an alphabet. Artist, image, nationality, biography, collection: a movement broken down into portable units of information. The familiar American\/British history is expanded to include Canada, with figures including Iain Baxter, Michael Snow and David Buchan entering the same classificatory system as Warhol and Hamilton.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication does more than document a canon. Through selection, naming and adjacency, it participates in constructing one. Pop’s own mechanisms — reproduction, repetition, graphic shorthand and mass circulation — are used to package Pop itself. The artwork becomes reproduction. The artist becomes entry. The movement becomes index.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good to very good. Light rubbing and handling wear to the metallic wrappers, minor edge and corner wear and a few faint surface marks. Interior clean from inspection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54216388477266,"sku":"SPALDING-MOAFAFSU-CAT-2000","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Spalding_Jeffrey.ABC_sofPopArt_America_Britain_Canada_MajorArtistsandTheirLegacy_Paperback_January1_2000.jpg?v=1786289051"},{"product_id":"peter-blake-watercolours-drawings-waddington-galleries-1972","title":"PETER BLAKE, Watercolours and Drawings, Waddington Galleries, 1972","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn exhibition catalogue published by Waddington Galleries, London, for Peter Blake's solo show of watercolours and drawings, 5–23 December 1972. Ten pages, staple-bound, with a colour reproduction on the cover: a profile portrait of a figure draped in cloth, painted with the precise, specimen-like attention Blake applied to the subjects he collected and documented — labelled at the foot of the image THE TUAREG, signed and dated 1972.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside, the register changes. A girl stands barefoot in a kimono, arms folded — Liberty Blake, his daughter with the artist Jann Haworth, painted with the same exacting patience as the cover. A second spread shows \u003cem\u003eFor Jann on Mother's Day\u003c\/em\u003e, a watercolour of a jug of flowers, soft and pastel-toned. The object was produced five years after \u003cem\u003eSgt. Pepper\u003c\/em\u003e, during Blake's early years in the village of Wellow, near Bath, three years before the formation of the Brotherhood of Ruralists. Pop, family, theatricality and domesticity are simply placed beside one another, unresolved, with no name yet for where he was going.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlake's position within Waddington is printed plainly on a back interior sheet: the gallery roster runs alphabetically — Annesley, Avery, Blake — ahead of Calder, Dubuffet, Klee, Matisse, Moore and Picasso. \u003cem\u003eLiberty Blake in a Kimono\u003c\/em\u003e subsequently appeared in the 1983 Tate retrospective and at Tate Liverpool in 2007; \u003cem\u003eFor Jann on Mother's Day\u003c\/em\u003e also entered Blake's major retrospective history. The catalogue survives as an early printed record of works that would later become part of the institutional account of his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Blake, \u003cem\u003eWatercolours and Drawings\u003c\/em\u003e, Waddington Galleries, London, 5–23 December 1972. 15 × 21 cm, 10 pages, staple-bound softcover with colour reproductions. Printed by Graphis Press Ltd. No designer credited.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good. Light age toning and handling wear to wrappers, minor surface marking and edge wear; staples and fold showing expected signs of age. Internally clean and complete.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Waddington Galleries","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54454672621906,"sku":null,"price":145.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Blake_Peter.Showcatalogue_Watercoloursanddrawings_.1972.jpg?v=1788058891"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/peter-blake.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}