Alan Bowness (1928–2021)
Author of The Tate Gallery : an illustrated companion to the national collections of British & modern foreign art
About the Author
Image credit: Sir Alan Bowness
Works by Alan Bowness
The Tate Gallery : an illustrated companion to the national collections of British & modern foreign art (1979) 167 copies, 3 reviews
The Impressionists in London: [cat. exp., Hayward Gallery, 3 January to 11 March 1973] (1973) 17 copies
British Contemporary Art, 1910-1990: Eighty Years of Collecting by the Contemporary Art Society (Art Reference) (1991) 10 copies
Bernard Meadows: Sculpture and Drawings (British Sculptors and Sculpture Series, Vol IV) (British Sculptors and Sculpture Series, Vol IV) (1995) 3 copies
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG 1 copy
THE BOOK OF ART: Vol 7: 1 copy
ARMITAGE, Kenneth 1 copy
New Painting 58-61 1 copy
Associated Works
Post-Impressionism: Cross-Currents in European Painting (1979) — Introduction — 112 copies, 1 review
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Common Knowledge
- Other names
- Bowness, Sir Alan
- Birthdate
- 1928-01-11
- Date of death
- 2021-03-01
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- art historian
museum director - Organizations
- Tate Gallery
- Awards and honors
- KBT, 1988
CBE - Nationality
- UK
- Associated Place (for map)
- UK
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Reviews
A good summary of the development of European art from Manet to the late 1950s. Suffers slightly from the monochrome reproductions; a Rothko on black and white doesn't really work. Coverage of sculpture is somewhat erratic (Jacob Epstein is mentioned only in passing, for example), but otherwise fairly comprehensive.
The Tate Gallery : an illustrated companion to the national collections of British & modern foreign art by Alan Bowness
This book does not pretend to contain illustrations of all the artwork in the Tate's collections, but instead gives a kind of art history lesson. The focus is on 1)The British Collection (15th thru 19th centuries), and 2) The Modern Collection (the 20th century).
The Tate Gallery : an illustrated companion to the national collections of British & modern foreign art by Alan Bowness
This book does not pretend to contain illustrations of all the artwork in the Tate's collections, but instead gives a kind of art history lesson. The focus is on 1)The British Collection (15th thru 19th centuries), and 2) The Modern Collection (the 20th century).
Gauguin is not one of my faves. I don't know quite know what he's trying to do. paint women, paint women in costume, have sex with his models, have models who are very young?
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