Art & Instinct Selected Writings of Roy Oxlade

by Marcus Reichert (Editor), Roy Oxlade, Peter Fuller

Roy Oxlade has maintained a strong presence in British painting for 40 years and is well known to those for whom painting matters more than establishment recognition. Student of Bomberg, Oxlade took his own path, evolving a form of "real" painting that has been widely influential among artists seeking an essential means of working uncorrupted by the commercial world of fine art. Oxlade's approach is eloquently expressed in his writing. His argument may at times be radical, but his philosophy is compelling, liberating and sane. This book makes available Roy Oxlade's controversial imagery and writing in one publication for the first time.

Genres: Art

269 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 2010

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are some really great insights here. If you are an artist, I cannot recommend this enough. Many of the concepts are repeated in the essays, but I found the first few essays, which really lay out a lot of Oxlade’s concerns, to be really good. It’s some of the best writing about the contemporary artist grappling with the why’s and how’s of the artistic impulse.

[Hawkins · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked the book and Oxlade's insights are thoughtful. Learned at bit about Bomberg.