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Eileen Agar

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Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy
Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy
WHITECHAPEL GALLERY

A major survey of the pioneering cult British painter, collagist and photographer and her unique passage from biomorphic Surrealism to Tachist abstraction

Pbk, 8.5 x 10 in. / 272 pgs / 250 color / 20 bw. | 6/22/2021 | Not available
$45.00



Eileen Agar: Angel of AnarchyEileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy

Published by Whitechapel Gallery.
Edited with text by Laura Smith, Grace Storey. Text by Marina Warner, Daisy Lafarge, Andrew Lambirth.

Painter and photographer Eileen Agar (1899–1991) was born in Buenos Aires and spent the majority of her life in Great Britain. In spite of her own pioneering contributions to painting, collage, photography and sculpture, Agar’s career has largely been appraised in relation to her connections with major male figures of European modernism such as Paul Nash, Ezra Pound, Roland Penrose and Paul Éluard. This monograph seeks to overturn that narrative and delve into Agar as a fully autonomous artist whose unique style was a crucial element in the development of European culture in the 20th century.Dense with pattern and color, Agar’s work across various media draws from Cubist and Surrealist tendencies of material juxtapositions and fractured imagery, evoking emotion through distortion. Alongside reproductions of rarely seen artworks, writer Marina Warner, poet Daisy Lafarge and Agar’s biographer Andrew Lambirth reflect on the artist’s progressive attitudes toward art, sexuality and art history. The book is published with four different colored covers.



PUBLISHER
Whitechapel Gallery

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8.5 x 10 in. / 272 pgs / 250 color / 20 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2021 p. 106   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9780854882922 TRADE
List Price: $45.00 CAD $63.00

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STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

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