Lowrys Lamps (okładka  twarda, wyd. 11.2021)

Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA RA is mostly thought about in terms of his people and their industrial setting but there is a great deal more to be read from the detail of his paintings. Throughout his artistic career, Lowry used street furniture to brilliant effect. He was a master of observation and composition. Lamp-posts, telegraph poles, flag poles, fences (and sometimes just vertical posts with no apparent use) form an important part of Lowry`s busy industrial scenes. As his work developed, lamps became a subject in their own right and became the focus of some of his later quiet, solitary works. The evidence of Lowry`s careful thought about lamps and lamp posts is evident in his response to young artists asking for career advice as well as it is in the painting. `no need to go to London to become a famous painter. You won`t find better lamp-posts there.` This book examines an important aspect of Lowry`s art for the first time. It is written by Richard Mayson who was brought up in Lowry`s home-village of Mottram-in-Longdendale. Mayson has a life-long passion for street lamps and street furniture. Taking some of Lowry`s best-known works as a reference, this book highlights Lowry`s use of lamps and street furniture in his handling of composition, perspective and colour. The expression of solitude, an aspect of Lowry`s life and often conveyed in his later work, is also considered. He also compares the treatment of street furniture in Lowry`s paintings with the reality of Salford and Manchester streets from 1916 to the 1970s illustrating how Lowry`s work e. Volumeved. Previously unseen works in private collections will be reproduced in this book for the first time.