- Hardcover: 96 pages
- Publisher: Sansom & Co (26 Oct 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1904537723
- ISBN-13: 978-1904537724
- Product Dimensions: 25 x 24.4 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 930,685 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In this lavishly illustrated book, artist Arthur Lockwood celebrates 20 years of painting change in the industrial landscapes of Birmingham and the Black Country. He has produced an elegy for a lost way of life, without pathos or bitterness but with realism. Without making judgements, Arthur Lockwood has dedicated himself to recording the demolition of nineteenth-century buildings and the construction of new landmarks such as the Bull Ring Shopping Centre in Birmingham. Alongside this, he set out to document the decline of the region's manufacturing, painting working factories and foundries before many were closed down and some of them demolished.In "Oldbury" he recorded the last line of working drop hammers and in Wolverhampton the last manufacturer of tacks and cut nails. In "Birmingham" he painted the last drop forge in the city. The book contains over 100 paintings selected from twenty years' work. Brendan Flynn, Curator of Fine Art at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, has written an introduction, noting that 'In capturing the process of change, Lockwood slows it down for us and offers an overview of the economic and social forces at large in the urban landscape. His drawings are probably the most searching examination in the visual arts of any urban landscape in Britain.'
About the Author
Arthur Lockwood is a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and exhibits in the RBSA Gallery in Brook Street, Birmingham. He also exhibits in London at the Mall Galleries, where he is a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and at the Bankside Gallery where he is an associate of the Royal Watercolour Society.
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This book would make an excellent present for anyone interested in industrial/social history. The watercolours are accurate, fresh, and hyper-real. The artist (and his artist father Frank) are not well known but deserve more recognition. The accompanying notes to the watercolours greatly enhance enjoyment of the whole book.
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