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Josef Herman
ISBN: 9781870015813
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
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The Journals begin in 1948 in Ystradgynlais, the Welsh mining village that Josef Herman loved, and which he made his home for more than a decade, finding there what he needed to express himself as a painter. He arrived in the Swansea Valley at the end of a journey which began in Warsaw where he was born in 1911. His passion for art and an awareness of the prevailing anti…
These journals provide great insight into the mind and art of one of the great 20th century artists. Though born in Poland, he is best known for his paintings of Welsh miners, for it was workers that inspired him, and he painted them with great simplicity, almost as monuments to work, and often with the sun and sky behind them so that they looked like latter-day saints. The journals reveal his artistic heritage, who inspired him, what he was in painters, what he thought of their technique. This is a fascinating book for anyone interested in art.
| ISBN | 1870015819 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9781870015813
(What's this?) | | Pages | 320 | | Publisher | Peter Halban Publishers Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 1027 | | Imprint | Peter Halban Publishers Ltd | | Published in | London | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 246 | | Publication date | 27 Feb 2003 | | Width (mm) | 189 | | Library of Congress | NC242.H43, NC242.H43 | | Academic level | General, Professional / Scholarly, Tertiary education | | DEWEY | 759.2 | |
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