Anthony Amies - Hatje Cantz

An open book showing a two-page spread. The left page features a black-and-white photograph of the artist Anthony Amies, a bearded man in a jacket, sitting in a field and holding a palette and paintbrushes. The right page displays the book's table of contents, titled CONTENTS / INHALT, with section titles in both English and German.

An open book showing a two-page spread with text in both English and German. The layout features columns of text, a vintage black-and-white photograph of a family in the center, and a color painting of a lush green landscape with a castle in the upper-right corner.

An open book spread on a white background, showing four artworks depicting shipyard life. The left page has two graphite sketches of workshop interiors. The right page has a graphite sketch of men building a boat and a color linocut of workers on a boat's frame. Each image is accompanied by a text caption.

A two-page spread from an art book. The left page features a large painting of a rural landscape with three prominent electricity pylons standing in textured green and yellow fields under a cloudy sky. The right page contains columns of text in English and German, along with three smaller inset images of coastal paintings.

An open art book displaying a two-page spread. On the left page is a painting of a large, dark tree standing in a golden field under a light blue sky. The right page features a bilingual interview with Walter Feilchenfeldt.

A two-page spread from an art book displaying two watercolor landscape paintings from 1968. The painting on the left shows dark trees behind a field under a cloudy sky. The painting on the right depicts purple-hued trees casting long shadows over a field at sunset, with a yellow sun in a pink sky.

A detailed, panoramic pencil drawing of a seascape in black and white, titled Sea Mist - Gorleston, 1981. The composition shows a stony beach in the foreground, with layers of waves and white seafoam rolling toward the shore. The sea extends to a pale, misty horizon.

A detailed black and white drawing of a wave breaking on the shore. The foreground is a sandy beach covered with rows of textured beach grass, while the background shows the foamy white crest of the wave against the darker sea and a distant, tree-lined coast.

A two-page spread from an art book. The left page contains a small block of text. The right page features a square painting of a seascape titled Grey Seashore, 1978. The painting shows a dark pebble beach in the foreground that meets a narrow strip of sand. Dark blue ocean waves with white foam wash onto the shore under a muted, cloudy, grey-blue sky.

A book open to a page showing the painting Clump of Trees - Ireland, 1983. The artwork depicts a lush, green Irish landscape. A grassy field fills the foreground, leading back to a hedge and a small hill with a thick stand of trees. A dramatic sky with bands of white clouds is overhead.

A page from an art book featuring the 1982 painting Breakwater with Purple Sky. The artwork on the right shows a weathered, moss-covered wooden breakwater extending from a sandy beach into a dark, choppy sea under a heavy, overcast sky with purplish-brown tones.

A two-page spread from an art book. The left page contains text, and the right page features a painting of a moody seascape. The artwork shows white sea foam receding over a dark pebble beach under a choppy grey sea and an overcast sky.

A two-page spread from an art book. The left page contains text in Cyrillic script. The right page shows a post-impressionist painting of a stormy coastal scene. A steep, dark brown cliff dominates the right, bordering a golden, pebbly beach. To the left, the sea has white-crested waves crashing on the shore. The sky is filled with vertical strokes of yellow and grey, suggesting rain.

Anthony Amies

Breaking Waves

€ 54.00

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Edited by: Jens Neubert, Jens Toivakainen, Walter Feilchenfeldt

Graphic Design: Rutger Fuchs

Artist: Anthony Amies

Texts by: Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jens Neubert, Jens Toivakainen, Alan Windsor

German, English

July 2023, 192 Pages, 340 Photos

Hardcover

244mm x 310mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5470-5

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| The Lost Landscapes of England

Anthony Amies' paintings assert a classical conception of painting. From the mid 1970s, the British artis pursued a radical counter-concept to the art of his time with a stylistically peculiar landscape painting. They are calm and enigmatic pictures that do without any scandal. In large-scale drawings and oil paintings, he plays with the "blot" technique: Amies abstracts the landscapes to convey an idea rather than a realistic image. The reduction to land and sea is a reflection on England and the loss of its individual landscapes to the monotony of industrial and urban proliferation and sprawling housing estates. In this idiosyncrasy―the assertion of the genre of landscape painting and in the painterly quality of the works as a contribution to the assertion of painting in art―lies the importance of this English painter.

ANTHONY AMIES (1945, Norwich-2000, London) was educated at Great Yarmouth College of Art in the 1960's and later at London's Slade School of Fine Art. Refusing to conform to the zeitgeist, he found his visual language inspired by Cozens' blot technique in the early 1970s, and would persist with it until his untimely death in 2000. Amies received the Arts Council Award in 1977 and worked teaching art in Camden from 1973-1995 at the Camden Institute and the Camden School of Art.