Anthony Amies: Breaking Waves

Name: Anthony Amies: Breaking Waves
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SKU: 9783775754705
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Anthony Amies: Breaking Waves explores the classical landscape paintings of British artist Anthony Amies from the mid 1970s. His works feature calm, enigmatic large-scale drawings and oil paintings that use a distinctive "blot" technique to abstract landscapes. Rather than depict realistic images, Amies conveys ideas about England's changing environment, reflecting on the loss of unique natural landscapes to industrialisation and urban sprawl. The book highlights Amies' role in reaffirming landscape painting's significance and his contribution to the art movement of his time.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in British art, classical landscape painting, and cultural reflections on environmental change. Art students and enthusiasts seeking insight into 20th-century counter-conceptual painting will find it particularly engaging.

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The Lost Landscapes of England

Anthony Amies: Breaking Waves showcases Anthony Amies' dedication to a classical conception of painting. Beginning in the mid-1970s, the British artist pursued a radical counter-concept to the predominant art forms of his time through a stylistically unique approach to landscape painting. These works are calm and enigmatic, devoid of scandal.

In both large-scale drawings and oil paintings, Amies employs the "blot" technique, abstracting landscapes to convey an idea rather than a realistic image. His focus on land and sea reflects on England's landscapes that have been lost to the monotony of industrial and urban proliferation and sprawling housing estates.

Amies' insistence on the genre of landscape painting and the painterly quality of his works highlights his contribution to the assertion of painting as a significant art form. This idiosyncratic approach underscores the importance of this English painter.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775754705

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 July 2023

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 340 Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Jens Toivakainen
Text by Alan Windsor
Edited by Walter Feilchenfeldt
Edited by Jens Neubert

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 305.0mm

Height: 233.0mm

Weight: 1200g

Pages: 192

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

ANTHONY AMIES (1945, Norwich-2000, London) was educated at Great Yarmouth College of Art in the 1960's and later at London's Slade School of Fine Art. Refusing to conform to the zeitgeist, he found his visual language inspired by Cozens' blot technique in the early 1970s, and would persist with it until his untimely death in 2000. Amies received the Arts Council Award in 1977 and worked teaching art in Camden from 1973-1995 at the Camden Institute and the Camden School of Art.