Bill Jacklin; Author: Taylor, John Russell; Hardback; Book

Author: Taylor, John Russell
Hardback; Book; 300 Colour Illustrations, Index, List of Exhibitio
240 pages
Published: March 1997
Phaidon Press Ltd
ISBN: 0714836141

Bill Jacklin is one of the most exciting and individual artists of the generation that first came to prominence in the 1960s. From the start, he seemed destined to swim against the stream. In an era of Pop Art he chose to be an abstract artist, producing intricate patterns of grids and dots. When he had achieved success in this style, he returned to a type of realistic representation. He was and is an obsessed painter, driven by his own compulsions to follow an individual path. This book provides the definitive mid-career survey of this British and American artist.First full-length study of the New York-based Anglo-American artist Bill Jacklin, whose highly individual abstract and figurative works reveal a constant preoccupation with geometrical order and with the play of light on surfaces.A full-length study of the New York-based Anglo-American artist Bill Jacklin, whose highly individual and figurative works reveal a constant preoccupation with geometrical order and with the play of light on surfaces.