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A Reluctant Memoir
Robert Ballagh
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Description for A Reluctant Memoir
Hardback.
A fiercely honest and unvarnished autobiography from Ireland's most successful and controversial living artist. Making his name as a Pop artist in the late 1960s and 70s, Robert Ballagh quickly achieved an international reputation. With little formal artistic training, he triumphed in his field despite often formidable hostility. His work was also strikingly topical and political, playing with classic images by Goya or Delacroix to express outrage about the situation in Northern Ireland. But it is his series of realistic portraits of writers, politicians and fellow artists – often searingly inquisitive and moving in equal measure – ... Read more
A fiercely honest and unvarnished autobiography from Ireland's most successful and controversial living artist. Making his name as a Pop artist in the late 1960s and 70s, Robert Ballagh quickly achieved an international reputation. With little formal artistic training, he triumphed in his field despite often formidable hostility. His work was also strikingly topical and political, playing with classic images by Goya or Delacroix to express outrage about the situation in Northern Ireland. But it is his series of realistic portraits of writers, politicians and fellow artists – often searingly inquisitive and moving in equal measure – ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786695314
SKU
9781786695314
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Ref
99-3
About Robert Ballagh
Robert Ballagh is an Irish artist, painter and designer. He lives and works in Dublin. www.robertballagh.com
Reviews for A Reluctant Memoir
One of Ireland's most versatile artists
Irish Times
His writing is warm, dry and thoughtfully anecdotal... For him there is no conflict between the visual and verbal. He has used the former to celebrate the latter; and now, in a deft act of inversion, he uses vibrant words to explain the development of his painting'
Irish Times ... Read more
Irish Times
His writing is warm, dry and thoughtfully anecdotal... For him there is no conflict between the visual and verbal. He has used the former to celebrate the latter; and now, in a deft act of inversion, he uses vibrant words to explain the development of his painting'
Irish Times ... Read more