Monica Bohm-Duchen
Lund Humphries
Hardback
200
Born in Warsaw in 1911 into a working-class Jewish family Josef Herman arrived in Britain (via Belgium) in 1940 settling first in Glasgow and then in the South Welsh mining village of Ystradgynlais. By the early 1950s known mainly for his images of Welsh miners he had established himself as a major figure in contemporary British art and by the end of the decade examples of his work had entered virtually every important public collection in the UK. This monograph is the first book to look at all aspects and phases of Herman s career in equal detail and to place his life and work in a broader cultural context. It aims both to introduce this important artist to a new public and to reveal an artist of far greater diversity and complexity than even Herman s longstanding admirers will have suspected.
Lund Humphries
Hardback
200
Born in Warsaw in 1911 into a working-class Jewish family Josef Herman arrived in Britain (via Belgium) in 1940 settling first in Glasgow and then in the South Welsh mining village of Ystradgynlais. By the early 1950s known mainly for his images of Welsh miners he had established himself as a major figure in contemporary British art and by the end of the decade examples of his work had entered virtually every important public collection in the UK. This monograph is the first book to look at all aspects and phases of Herman s career in equal detail and to place his life and work in a broader cultural context. It aims both to introduce this important artist to a new public and to reveal an artist of far greater diversity and complexity than even Herman s longstanding admirers will have suspected.