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L.S. Lowry is probably Britain's most popular artist. This book takes a fresh look at his work, and with over 200 colour reproductions, it is a useful book for students and admirers of his work.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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Highly recommended! Great compilation.,
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This review is from: Lowry: A Visionary Artist (Hardcover)
After recently visiting the Lowry Museum in Manchester, I was pleased to come across this recent book. It contains the most extensive collection of photos and narratives in one book that I have found to date. If you are a fan of Lowry, I seriously recommend this one over all others. It has pride of place on my coffee table to enthral my guests.
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
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A cutting-edge look at L.S.Lowry,
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This review is from: Lowry: A Visionary Artist (Hardcover)
I've read just about every book on Lowry, from his paintings to the details of his personal life. This book bends the viewing angle and delivers a fresh look into his work. Howard looks where others have not. His depiction of Lowry's famous most famous works, take on a different look. A true classic amongst art books. My hat goes off to this daring look at Britain's most famous artist of the 20th Century.
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5.0 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews) 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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A beautiful book about a great artist,
By Ma Rainey Gland "momsy" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Lowry: A Visionary Artist (Hardcover)
Perhaps the most famous 'outsider artist' L. S. Lowry is honored in this book. The reproductions of his throngs, smokestacks, and seascapes are many and beautiful, and the text is full of Lowry's witty quotes. A bit pricey, due to the independant press and high quality, but this is the only source I know of with this much of Lowry's work, and all in color. Please buy me one.
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The beauty of stoic immobility `,
By Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Lowry: A Visionary Artist (Hardcover)
I owe my acquaintance with the work of Lowry to the Jerusalem artist Rifkah Goldberg who is a great admirer of his work. This volume contains beautiful color reproductions of Lowry's work, and its seems to me a highly perceptive description and interpretation of the artist's work by Michael Howard.When I first saw the matchstick like figures of some Lowry's cityscenes I was instantly charmed by it. At the same time it seemed to me to present a childlike primitive even Grandma Moses - like way of seeing things. But later through looking a lot at the work of Rifkah Goldberg ,whose figures have the same kind of stoic immobility that Lowry's do, I began to sense a kind of strange beauty in the work.. It is the Manchester world of many machine- made or machine- like figures each somehow set off by itself completely alone and isolated , barely able to move and certainly unable to communicate. In one 'family picture' in this work there is a father and two sons . Howard points out that Lowry did not have a wife and children of his own. And that the family presented in the picture is a totally dysfunctional one with each of the people wholly isolated. Lowry painted the sea and smokestacks of the city and the sticklike figures of a matchbox world. Still it feels upon the looking and re- looking at it as if it is a singular way of seeing things, the brilliant gift of a lone and lonely individual to enhance however difficultly Mankind's picture of the world. |
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