The Independent Eye: Contemporary British Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie

Edited by Eleanor Hughes and Angus Trumble

Essays by Jo Applin, Mel Gooding, Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie, John McEwen, Paul Moorhouse, Andrea Wolk Rager, and Christopher Yetton

Published by the Yale Center for British Art in association with Yale University Press

144 pages, 12 x 9 3/4 inches, 105 illustrations, cloth, ISBN 978-0300171396

Publication date: December 7, 2010

Description

Guided by their passionate belief in the primacy of the personal, emotional encounter with art, Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie had amassed a vital and dynamic collection of modern and contemporary British art that spans the past four decades. The collection includes major works by Ian Stephenson, Patrick Caulfield, and John Walker, as well as important prints by Howard Hodgkin and R. B. Kitaj. At the core of the collection are fifty paintings and works on paper by John Hoyland, generally considered one of Britain’s foremost abstract painters. The Independent Eye: Contemporary British Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie, published to accompany an exhibition of the same title, provides a crucial opportunity to examine this period through the lens of the Lurie’s collection. This lavishly illustrated book includes contributions by leading critics and writers on contemporary British art.