Title:	Artists' London: Holbein to Hirst
Categories:	Art & Design
BookID:	ad-0153
Authors:	Kit Wedd, Lucy Peltz, Cathy Ross
ISBN-10(13):	9781858941417
Publisher:	Merrell Publishers
Publication date:	2003-01-01
Edition:	01
Number of pages:	160
Language:	English
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Description:	Product Description At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the East End of London is the locus for thousands of painters, sculptors, photographers, and printers who have transformed a largely neglected area into a vibrant creative quarter. The migration of artists and galleries to the East End over the last thirty years is only the latest example of the regeneration of a hitherto unpromising part of the city. Throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, the City, the fashionable areas of Covent Garden, Hampstead, Kensington, and "Bohemian" Chelsea were all colonized in their turn by artists, reflecting the parallel development of the artist's identity from artisan to respectable gentleman to decadent dandy. The twentieth-century annexation of such previously unprepossessing areas as Camden Town, Bloomsbury, Fitzrovia, and Soho consolidated the Bohemian status of artists. Artists' London explores the complex relationship between artists and the areas of London they inhabit, examining such figures as Hans Holbein, Sir Joshua Reynolds, William Blake, J.M.W. Turner, John Constable, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, James McNeill Whistler, Walter Sickert, Francis Bacon, Damien Hirst, and Tracey Emin. Amazon.com Review Anyone who likes to follow in the footsteps of artists will love Artists' London. An exhibition catalog for the Museum of London's "Creative Quarters" show, the book covers five centuries of artistic movements and neighborhoods. Visit Hogarth in Covent Garden, Whistler and Rossetti in Chelsea, or Damien Hirst in present-day East End. Paintings of interiors and works by the artists fill the show, but the detailed maps make you hunger for a walking tour.