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This fully illustrated study of the life and work of Scottish artist Craigie Aitchison (1926-2009) is the first book to cover the entire oeuvre of a painter whose distinctive and powerfully evocative style has earned him widespread public and critical acclaim. Award-winning writer Cate Haste draws for the first time on family archives, letters, published interviews with the painter, and new interviews with those who knew Aitchison to explore the relationship of his life to his work, the influences which shaped his visual imagination, the emergence of his distinctive themes, and the development of his painting style.Craigie Aitchison was born in Edinburgh and studied at the Slade School of Art under William Coldstream and Robert Medley. In 1954 he was one of 'Six Young Contemporaries' who showed at Gimpel Fils gallery in London, and the following year he was awarded a British Council Scholarship to study in Italy. His encounter with the exuberance of Catholic churches and Quattrocento frescoes and the vivid colours of the Tuscan landscape had a profound influence on his art. Later, he exhibited alongside the major figures of his day - Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Euan Uglow and Michael Andrews. His commissioned work included a Calvary for Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, four panels for Truro Cathedral, Cornwall, a Christmas Millennium stamp for the Royal Mail, and stage designs for Northern Ballet. He also designed neck-ties, fabrics and ceramics for the Royal Academy. At the centre of Aitchison's poetic vision was his sophisticated use of colour and shape, giving eloquent meaning to his deceptively simple subjects and his distillation of each image - still-life, crucifixion, landscape, portrait - to its very essence of beauty. Cate Haste's highly readable account will be widely welcomed by the many admirers and collectors of the work of an extraordinary artist.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Edinburgh: A Singular Background 1926-1952; Chapter 2 Distillation: The Slade, Italy and Tulliallan 1952-1959; Chapter 3 London: The Eloquence of Colour 1960-1969; Chapter 4 Transition: Merging the Genres 1970-1979; Chapter 5 Transformations: Sacred and Mundane 1980-1989; Chapter 6 The Spirit of Place 1990-1999; Chapter 7 Reverberations: Re-working the Past 1999-2009; Chronology; Public and Corporate Collections; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author :
Cate Haste is a biographer, historian and film-maker. Her last monograph/biography was a comprehensive study of life and work of artist Sheila Fell, Sheila Fell A Passion for Paint (Lund Humphries 2010) and won the Lakeland Book of the Year Award. She has written on political and historical subjects including Clarissa Eden: A Memoir (2008), The Goldfish Bowl: Married to the Prime Minister (2005) and Nazi Women (2001).

Review :
'Haste's text is as vivid as Aitchison's paintings' The Times Literary Supplement


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781848221291
  • Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
  • Height: 270 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Width: 228 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1848221290
  • Publisher Date: 28 Oct 2014
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Life in Colour


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