Hodgkin Howard

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A readable, sensitive and comprehensive treatment of Hodgkin - By: P. O'Beirne Systems Ltd, 23 Feb 2002
The very dust-jacket with its dynamic detail from Hodgkin's Old Sky strikes the right note in this intelligently presented & visuallly seductive review of the painter's career. The excellent quality of the illustrations, their logical placing directly opposite the pertinent text, marginal page references, the choice of type-face & the luxury -feel paper alll make the mere handling of the book a real pleasure.
Far from being of mere coffee-table appeal, however, the author's cool authoritative voice makes one feel that here is a critic in whose hands one is safe. Such a gem of wisdom as ' whatever residue of inexplicability lodges in a work of art is also its only hope of an afterlife' establishes his impeccable credentials as a discerning critic. Graham-Dixon deals with Hodgkin's seminal influences, his eclecticism, his evolving theatrical style, his preoccupation with the vagaries of memory & its transmutation into art. 'Hodgkin does not set out to paint what the world looks like, but what it feels like.' His work has the quality of intimacy which makes its own demands on the viewer who would engage with it, Graham-Dixon observes in a book which is lucid & comprehensive without ever wearying the reader.

Review by Megan O'Beirne, visual artist

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