- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Yale University Press; First edition (19 Jun 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1857092945
- ISBN-13: 978-1857092943
- Product Dimensions: 25.8 x 25.2 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 573,448 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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As part of its Millennium celebrations, the National Gallery has invited over twenty major contemporary artists to create a new work in response to paintings in the Collection. Close Encounters: New Art from Old surveys the history of dialogue between contemporary art and the art of the past and places in context the group of works created specially for this exhibition. These include paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography and video. In the first of two introductory essays, Robert Rosenblum gives an overview of the use made of past art by living artists from the late eighteenth century to today's emerging new generation, and in the second Richard Morphet discusses the art in this exhibition. These essays are followed by individual sections on each of the new works. Based on extensive interviews with the artists, they explain the reason for the artist's selection of his or her source work and the ways in which the new work relates to it. Each new work is reproduced alongside the painting which inspired it, and a brief entry explaining the significance of the National Gallery picture. Comparative illustrations and photographs of the exhibited work in progress offer insight into artistic inspiration and practice, and biographies and photographs of the artists are included.
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'Encounters: New Art from Old' was an exhibition of new work by 24 major living artists (painters, sculptors, photographers, video and installation artists) made in response to paintings in the National Gallery, and showed how some of the greatest artistic personalities of the late 20th century continue to engage with the work of their predecessors.
For some, like Kossoff and Freud, this engagement is based on close study of the way an artist paints and is a continual process of technical discovery. For others, like Bourgeois, Clemente and Kiefer, the art of the past is a source of ideas to be interpreted and refashioned in works of a very different kind. The painters they looked at were as various as their responses, ranging from Duccio to Seurat. The new works made for 'Encounters' demonstrated that the art of the past continues to speak to the present. They allowed everyone who visited the exhibition to share that artistic exchange between old and new.
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