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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
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George Shaw – My Back to Nature
| Publisher | National Gallery |
| Year | 2016 |
| Cover | Halfcloth |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-1-85709-603-3 |
| Pages | 104 |
| Weight | 853 g |
| More | |
| Contributors | Colin Wiggins |
| Type of book | Exhib'publication |
| Museum / Place | National Gallery, London |
| Article ID | art-61726 |
In 2014, the contemporary painter George Shaw (b. 1966) began a two-year post as associate artist in the National Gallery, London. This book documents his experiences there, as well as the work he produced in response to the Gallery's collection.
Shaw is known for his minutely detailed and luminously atmospheric depictions of the urban landscape and woodlands of central England. Painting scenes from his native region, Shaw meditates on the central themes of relationships, ancestry, and love. His preferred medium, Humbrol enamel paint, is a deliberate means of distancing himself from the traditions of oil painting and, it might seem, from the values embedded in the National Gallery itself. Yet as a teenager in Coventry, Shaw was fascinated by the Gallery, traveling regularly to London to draw from those artists he found inspiring.
This engaging volume reproduces his first series of paintings on canvas, together with working drawings and an essay by the artist himself.
