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Kevin Atkinson - Art and Life
Kevin Atkinson - Art and Life
Author: Marilyn Martin
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KEVIN ATKINSON – ART AND LIFE is the first comprehensive monograph devoted to the legendary Cape Town artist, educator, cultural activist, philosopher and shaman Kevin Atkinson (1939-2007).
KEVIN ATKINSON – ART AND LIFE provides an indispensible introduction to Atkinson, a major figure in the story of South African art, art history and art education. Emerging in the 1960s, Atkinson gained a formidable reputation as a daring and forward-thinking artist fully engaged by his South African context and the plurality of ideas and styles that characterised international contemporary art from the mid-1940s.
His remarkable output, which encompasses drawing, printmaking, painting, sculpture, environments and performance, is the expression of an artist who, in his own words, was “in time, on time, all the time”. Atkinson’s tenure as a teacher, particularly at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, where he was once a student, also informs his considerable legacy.
Collectors' Edition limited to 10 copies, hard cover in solander box with bookplate, numbered and signed by the Trustees of The Kevin and Patricia Atkinson Trust - including shipping with South Africa only.
Subscribers' Edition limited to 20 copies, hard cover in slipcase with bookplate, numbered and signed by the Trustees of The Kevin and Patricia Atkinson Trust - including shipping with South Africa only.
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MEET THE AUTHOR
Marilyn Martin
After eleven years as director of the South African National Gallery, Marilyn Martin was appointed director of art collections for Iziko Museums in 2001. She retired in 2008 and has since worked as an independent writer, curator and lecturer. She is an Honorary Research Associate at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. In 2002 Martin was admitted to the Legion of Honour of the Republic of France at the rank of Officer and in 2013 she received the medal of the Fondation Alliance Française in Paris.
In 2019 Marilyn Martin published Between Dreams and Realities - A History of the South African National Gallery 1871 - 2017 (Print Matters Heritage).
Marilyn Martin passed away after a short illness in 2022.