{"product_id":"helen-clapcott-in-the-light-of-buildings-9781848226968","title":"Helen Clapcott: In the Light of Buildings","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a painting career spanning half a century, Helen Clapcott (b.1952) has remained consistent in both her choice of subject and her disregard of the art establishment's playbook. In this, the first major monograph on the artist, Andrew Lambirth charts Clapcott's unconventional path and presents a painter with an uncompromising vision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClapcott is a painter pre-occupied with the destruction and regeneration of the landscape of her native North-West England. Depictions of the mutation and evolution of what was once Stockport's industrial valley, now a commuter corridor, are expressions of our developing environments and the growth of vernacular townscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on numerous conversations with the artist, and an in-depth understanding of Clapcott's oeuvre, Andrew Lambirth's text provides a lively account of the artist's background, training and working methods, including her mastery of tempera. Above all, this is a study of an artist's very personal relationship with the evolving landscape of her childhood and her lifelong artistic engagement with the city that she loves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Lambirth\u003c\/b\u003e is a freelance writer, critic and curator who has written extensively on 20th-century British art for a wide range of newspapers and magazines. He was art critic of \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e (2002-2014), and his reviews have been collected in a paperback entitled \u003ci\u003eA is a Critic\u003c\/i\u003e. He has published more than 50 books including full-length monographs on artists such as Ken Kiff, RB Kitaj, Allen Jones, Maggi Hambling, John Hoyland and William Gear. His curatorial projects include shows on the work of Eileen Agar, Peter Blake, Cedric Morris and Ivon Hitchens for various museums and public galleries in the UK. His previous monographs for Lund Humphries include \u003ci\u003eRose Hilton\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), \u003ci\u003eMargaret Mellis\u003c\/i\u003e (2010) and \u003ci\u003eRichard Eurich\u003c\/i\u003e (2020) and he contributed chapters to \u003ci\u003eEdward Burra\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), \u003ci\u003eBarbara Rae\u003c\/i\u003e (2008) and \u003ci\u003eEileen Gray\u003c\/i\u003e (2015).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51183030960402,"sku":"9781848226968","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_897730d2-60df-4172-bd60-1f20d451542f.jpg?v=1744452838","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/helen-clapcott-in-the-light-of-buildings-9781848226968","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}