Author: SIDEY, TESSA
Title: Editions Alecto : original graphics, multiple originals 1960-1981 / Tessa Sidey ; with foreword by David Alan Mellor
Description: London ; Burlington (Vt.) : Lund Humphries 2003. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 272 pages; Physical description. : 272 p. : ill. (some col. ). facsims.ports. ; 26 cm. Contents: Includes prints by Gillian Ayres. Patrick Caulfield. Robyn Denny. Jim Dine. Richard Hamilton. David Hockney. Allen Jones. Claes Oldenburg. Eduardo Paolozzi. Colin Self. Richard Smith and many others. Summary: 'Editions Alecto' takes its title from the pioneering print publishers who produced contemporary artists' prints in Britain during the 1960s and 1970s. and promoted the idea of painters and sculptors being given the freedom to originate and realize ideas in multiple form. The book brings together for the over 20 years' worth of 2- and 3-D graphic art. and puts into context the ideas and mechanisms that helped make the graphic medium a central force for a generation of British. American and European artists. Comprising over 190 images. 118 of which are in colour. the works of such significant figures as David Hockney. Eduardo Paolozzi. Patrick Caulfield. Richard Hamilton and Gillian Ayres feature. Subject: Editions Alecto Ltd. - History. Editions Alecto Ltd. - Catalogues. Editions Alecto Ltd - Catalogs. Print workshops - Great Britain - London - 20th century - Catalogs. Prints - 20th century - CatalogsPrint workshops - Great Britain - London - 20th century - History.Weight in Kg appr.:

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