Frank Bowling Paperback – September 24, 2019

lots of photos and good commentary

A beautifully-produced book about a great artist who is not as well-known as he should be. The artist was born in Guyana and studied in England. He also worked in New York. His work is abstract and noted for its gorgeous colors. The book is the catalogue of the Tate Britain retrospective exhibition in London in 2019. Seven fine articles by experts are included, along with a chronology of his life and photos of the artist. The chief attraction, however, are the excellent reproductions of many of his paintings, 100 pages in full color, with many details, too. This should help to increase his international reputation, as he deserves. Highly recommended.

To start, the art of Frank Bowlng is, for me, amazing - his work is colorful, gritty, mysterious, and accessible all at the same time. I love it. But the book does a piss-poor job of representing such a fine artist.First, the text is miniscule, amost unreadable, and is presented in long 20-25 line paragraphs, that make it even harder to read! Add to this is the fact that on the text pages the margins are as wider as the text itself, which means we're left with a lot of unreadable text surrounded by a lot unncessary white space!Even with some of the images, they have left 1-2 inch margins, whereas it would have been much better if they had reduced the margins and made the images larger so we could see and explore them much more easily.I don't really understand why a book about such a fine artist is so poorly laid out! If the Tate had much better use of the book's white space, they could have made the text larger, broken up the too-long paragraphs and actually made the book readable. And they could have made many more of the images much more accessable!However, it's as if the Tate didn't really care about the art or the artist and was instead more interested in making the book be cool, modern and hip. That's the only excuse I can come up with, and it is indeed a poor one at that!

Dusty cover with gooey stains had to wipe off. Inner leaf corner is marked! Not Cool.Poor condition.

Gift for my daughter who lived it.

You need to have seen the exhibition to fully appreciate this exceptional artist

Great reproduction of the current exhibition at the Tate.

I really like this artists work

Good value