Peter Kennard
Lund Humphries
Hardback
112
2000
Trained in Fine Art Kennard abandoned painting in the 1970s in search of a new form of expression that could bring art and politics together for a wider audience. Written from a highly personal perspective Dispatches from an Unofficial War Artist traces Kennard s artistic political and personal development from his early paintings in a coalshed to art school and to a number of left-wing and radical campaigns including those for CND. It brings together Kennard s own musings on his childhood art international politics and British society to make for a fascinating portrait of the times and of Kennard himself.
Lund Humphries
Hardback
112
2000
Trained in Fine Art Kennard abandoned painting in the 1970s in search of a new form of expression that could bring art and politics together for a wider audience. Written from a highly personal perspective Dispatches from an Unofficial War Artist traces Kennard s artistic political and personal development from his early paintings in a coalshed to art school and to a number of left-wing and radical campaigns including those for CND. It brings together Kennard s own musings on his childhood art international politics and British society to make for a fascinating portrait of the times and of Kennard himself.