David Bomberg: A Critical Study of His Life and Work

by William C Lipke

David Bomberg was one of England's most neglected twentieth-century artists. He was perhaps the only arthst of the 20th Century whose work, continuously experimental yet completely realized, encompassed the finest achievements in the past six decades of British art. Although he won critical acclaim prior to World War I as the most avant garde artist in England and had considerably influenced the Vorticist movement, it was not until the first retrospective exhibition of his work in 1958 - one year after his death - that he was heralded as a master. Reflecting his developing style and philosophy of art - which partly coincided with the experiments of Cezanne and the writings of Bishop Berkley - teh paintings and drawings after 1920 are part of the great British tradition of landscape and portraiture. Essentially a colourist, Bomberg portraid the landscape of Palestine, Greece, Petra and Spain, as well as that of his native country. His unique achievement rests not only on his brillant palette and handling of mass, but also as founder of the Borough Group in the lated 1940's and the Borough Bottega in the early 1950's, and as a teacher who has exerted and enormous influence on the young painters of today. As a philospher, Bomberg left in his writing perceptive and original statements about his methods, his contemporaries, and the relation of art to much of this valuable and interesting material is published in this book for the first time.

132 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1968