This is a new and much updated edition of David Buckman's dictionary. As well as extensive updates, there will be around 4,500 entirely new biographies. The number of featured artists will total 14,500. Many contemporary artists, including installation and video, will be included for the first time. As well as artists born in the United Kingdom, the book will contain many from Ireland, continental Europe, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and America who studied and worked for periods or settled in Britain. It is also strong on Polish painters who settled in Britain before and after the Second World War.
This is a new and much updated edition of David Buckman's dictionary. As well as extensive updates, there will be around 4,500 entirely new biographies. The number of featured artists will total 14,500. Many contemporary artists, including installation and video, will be included for the first time. As well as artists born in the United Kingdom, the book will contain many from Ireland, continental Europe, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and America who studied and worked for periods or settled in Britain. It is also strong on Polish painters who settled in Britain before and after the Second World War.
Acknowledgements Introduction Volume 1 A to L System of Dating Abbreviations Volume 2 M to Z Select Bibliography: General Reference Works Individual Artists' Biographies Mixed/Group Exhibition Catalogues
David Buckman has been a journalist for over 40 years, initially on the staff of several magazines. Working for an American-owned energy monthly, he travelled in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. As a freelance, he wrote for dozens of publications and made several hundred radio and television broadcasts. After the 1998 appearance of his dictionary Artists in Britain since 1945 , he has written full-time on art. He contributed to Macmillan's The Dictionary of Art. Monographs include J B Manson, Leonid Pasternak, Martin Leman and Glyn Morgan; Mixed Palette , a study of Frank Ward and Kathleen Walne; and Charles Debenham's East Anglia; and he has completed a biography of the sculptor A H Gerrard. He writes frequently for The Independent and Galleries magazine.
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