Nigel Cooke /

An in-depth look at the work and career of this fascinating artist, who is having a profound impact on contemporary painting. Nigel Cooke is known for his complex paintings, which thematically explore the meeting point between creative labour, consciousness, art history, consumer culture, and nature...

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Main Authors: Cooke, Nigel, 1973
Group Author: Leader, Darian; Godfrey, Tony; Darrieussecq, Marie
Published: Phaidon Press Ltd.,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2016.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Contemporary artists
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Summary: An in-depth look at the work and career of this fascinating artist, who is having a profound impact on contemporary painting. Nigel Cooke is known for his complex paintings, which thematically explore the meeting point between creative labour, consciousness, art history, consumer culture, and nature. Primarily centred on meticulously painted, large-scale urban landscapes, which he calls 'hybrid theatrical spaces', Cooke's work employs disparate styles, often integrating trompe l'oeil miniature rocks and trees with backdrops of graffiti-marked buildings, to create scenes conveying obscure and
Carrier Form: 158 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (page 157).
ISBN: 9780714870915 (paperback) :
0714870919 (paperback)
9780714870922 (hardback)
0714870927 (hardback)
Index Number: N6797
CLC: J205.561
Call Number: J205.561/C773
Contents: Interview / Darien Leader in conversation with Nigel Cooke -- Survey. Painting in the age of theory, pixar, and talking books / Tony Godfrey -- Focus. Studio infinity / Marie Darrieussecq -- Artist's choice. Moon Palace, 1989 / Paul Auster ; Painting as an art, 1987 / Richard Wollheim -- Artist's writings. The language of insects, 2004 ; Bacon's sacred studio, 2010 / [Nigel Cooke].