Malcolm Morley

📖 The Scoop

"Malcolm Morley winner of the first Turner Prize in 1984, is an artist whose work resists classification. Credited as the initiator of two significant and very different movements--Photo-Realism in the 1970s, and Neo-Expressionism in the 1980s--Morley's forty-year career has been distinguished by great technical virtuosity and a commitment to pushing painting to its limits. Inspired by film and advertising, by ancient myths and psychoanalysis, by old and modern masters, Morley's imagery is a form of highly-charged drama that has no equivalent in the art of our time. This fully illustrated catalogue, published in the year of the artist's seventieth birthday, coincides with the Hayward Gallery's retrospective exhibition on the artist and charts the way in which Morley's career has developed dramatically since the abstract paintings he made in the 1960s. It contains reproductions of Morley's most significant works, a critical essay by Sarah Whitfield, a new and illuminating interview with the artist by art critic Martin Gayford as well as a chronology of the artist's life and career."--back cover.

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