Derek Boshier: New Work

Artist: Derek Boshier 
Author: Guy Brett (intro.) 
Publisher: Shakespeare Fine Art 
Date: 2000 
Condition: Very light shelf marking to the covers, otherwise a very clean and tidy example of this catalogue 

Derek Boshier was part of a key generation of British artists - those who created the language of Pop Art. 

Whilst art historians will argue about who did what first, and if it was on this or that side of the Atlantic that this happened, the underlying fact is that in the late 1950s and early 1960s a new form of art appeared. It took on board popular culture, gloried in the non-art materials and imagery, and became part of the world.

The British artists who were at the forefront of this outbreak of new ideas were a disparate gang and their later careers diversified across the world. But in those early, heady days, centred on the RCA in London, they all created something new.

Boshier's work was central to this, and he retained the sensibility of Pop throughout his work. This catalogue, published to accompany a 2000 exhibition, was at a time when his generation we beginning to be reappraised and their contribution to British art in the post-war period rewritten.