Christopher Le Brun

by Bryan Robertson

In the early 1980s, Christopher Le Brun became the major British exponent of an international movement in painting that enabled artists to escape the dominating influence of post-war abstraction. Central to this new aesthetic was a passionate belief in the power of figurative art, the legitimacy of recovering a sense of national traditions, & the re-exploration of narrative. Le Brun's classical yet muscular visual vocabulary -- featuring startling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861541252
• ISBN13: 9781861541253
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Booth-Clibborn Editions
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 4.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 10.2" x 13.7"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary