Damien Hirst: A Retrospective

The survey began in April 1988 as interviews with artists jewellers, fashion designers and furniture restorers, based at Old Loom House in Whitechapel, launching a quarterly review Cv Journal of Art and Crafts. Cv Journal was published to 1992 and the collection of interviews and features provided the foundation of the Cv/Visual Arts Research archive and subsequent publications. Cv/VAR series 146 reviews the work of Damien Hirst (b.Bristol 1965) presented in a retrospective exhibition spanning twenty years, held at Tate Modern, April to September 2012. It explores the development of his art from the controversial animal vitrines and beautiful butterfly composites to an extensive series of spot paintings, where the artist engaged in a complex invigilation of coded systems that govern daily existence. With contributions by Marina Vaizey and James Cahill, it encounters a rarely exhibited work One Thousand Years, Mother and Child, Crematorium, Pharmacy and For The Love of God, the diamond studded skull.

Author: Nicholas James,Marina Vaizey,James Cahill
Publisher: CV Publications
Published: 02/15/2024
Pages: 74
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9781908419552

About the Author
Vaizey, Marina: - Marina Vaizey is a lecturer, writer and art critic. She was the art critic of the Financial Times for four years, and The Sunday Times for eighteen years. She has been a council member of the Arts Council, the Crafts Council, several art colleges, national museums, Friends groups and arts centres. Among her books are The Artist as Photographer, 100 Masterpieces of Art, Great Women Collectors, and she has written numerous catalogues, led over fifty trips visiting cultural institutions abroad, and lectured to art societies and in museums and galleries. She is currently writing for theartsdesk.com, the Burlington magazine, Dispatches (Imperial War Museum) and the V & A magazine. For Cv Publications, she has written on Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, David Hockney and Lucian Freud.Cahill, James: - James Cahill combines writing, research and painting with a role at one of London‟s leading contemporary art galleries. He studied at the Courtauld Institute, where his research focused on British twentieth-century artists' explorations of crucifixion and obscenity. He is the co-author of a monograph on British artist Angus Fairhurst (2009), and has written catalogue essays for a number of contemporary art exhibitions, as well as reviews for various publications. He has lectured at the Architectural Association, London, on the paintings of Francis Bacon, and at Oxford University on Renaissance iconography in contemporary art. His current research looks at the afterlife of ancient Greece and Rome in contemporary visual culture.James, Nicholas: - 1973-78 founded and directed The Gallery London, 65a Lisson Street, producing combne projects in collaboration with John Latham, Vaughan Grylls, Stephen Willats, John A. Walker, Rita Donagh, Tony Rothon, Gerald Newman and Jonathan Miles.1989-91 With Sarah Batiste edited and published a quarterly review Cv Journal of Art and Crafts. 1992 founded Cv Publications, 1995 founded Cv/Visual Arts Research, publishing interviews with artists and curators, books amd monographs authored by Edward Lucie-Smith, Marina Vaizey, Anne Blood, James Cahill and Magdalena Wasiura. Presently operates Philip James Studio based at Candid Arts Trust, Islington North London.

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