Editions Alecto: Original Graphics, Multiple Originals 1960-1981
Editions Alecto: Original Graphics, Multiple Originals 1960-1981
Sidey, Tessa. Editions Alecto: Original Graphics, Multiple Originals 1960-1981 2003, London, Lund Humphries, 272 pages including 137 colour and 72 black & white illustrations, hardback, text in English, in excellent/new condition $65
Editions Alecto takes its title from the pioneering print publishers who produced contemporary artists' prints in Britain during the 1960s and 1970s, and promoted the idea of painters and sculptors being given the freedom to originate and realize ideas in multiple form. The book brings together for the first time over 20 years' worth of 2-D graphic art and 3-D mutiple objects, and puts into context the ideas and mechanisms that helped make the graphic medium a central force for a generation of British, American and European artists.
Comprising over 200 images and documentary photographs the work of such significant figures as David Hockney, Eduardo Paolozzi, Patrick Caulfield, Richard Hamilton and Gillian Ayres features.
Tessa Sidey is Curator, Prints and Drawings, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, UK
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