Derek Boshier Hardcover by Paul Gorman, David Hockney

Product Details

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson (2015-11-10)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 288 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780500093887
• Item Weight: 1865.43 grams
• Dimensions: 29.21 x 23.88 x 3.05 cm

A notable monograph on British artist Derek Boshier, covering his extensive collection of work from the mid-1950s to the present day

Derek Boshier’s art has journeyed through a number of different phases, from films and painting to album covers, photography, and book making. He was a contemporary of Pauline Boty, Peter Blake, and David Hockney at the Royal College of Art and first achieved fame as part of the British Pop Art generation of the early 1960s. He then progressed to making wholly abstract illusionistic paintings with brash colors and strong patterns in shapes that broke playfully free of conventional rectangular formats.

At the beginning of the 1970s, Boshier gave up painting for more than a decade and turned to book making, drawing, collage, printmaking, photography, posters, and filmmaking. His work included album covers and stage-sets for David Bowie and a songbook for The Clash.

Boshier’s work has always conveyed an abiding political and social engagement—reflecting upon themes from apartheid in South Africa to the anxieties provoked by Al Qaeda—and has a profound sense of place, responding to those he has visited and lived in, from Houston, Texas to England and Los Angeles.

About the Author

Paul Gorman is an author and commentator on visual culture. He has written a number of books including The Wild World of Barney Bubbles: Graphic Design and the Art of Music, The Story of the Face: The Magazine that Changed Culture, and Derek Boshier: Rethink / Re-entry.  

In a 2011 poll of more than 1,000 British artists, David Hockney (1937–2026) was voted the most influential British artist of all time. He produced work in almost every medium—painting, drawing, stage design, photography, printmaking, and digital technology—and stretched the boundaries of all of them. Born in Bradford, England, Hockney attended art school in London before moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s, where he created his famous swimming pool paintings. At a press conference once, he was asked what his art was saying to people. He answered, "Nothing specific: just love life."