Gerald Laing 1965) challenges convention and encourages

1965) challenges convention and encourages viewers to construe meanings from images that demand interrogation and debate

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often with the aid of elaborate illustrations

Jacob van Ruisdael

In considering these histories

Gerald Laing 1965) challenges convention and encouragesThis is a complete, illustrated catalogue of the painting and sculpture of Pop Art pioneer Gerald Laing (19362011), who shot to fame in the 1960s with his large scale, iconic paintings of film stars such as Brigitte Bardot and Anna Karina, conveyed in styles and colours that aped the crude but powerful printing processes of mass advertising. In 1964 Laing moved to New York and transformed effortlessly from Pop artist to abstract minimalist, showing