Michael Andrews

Michael Andrews by Moorhouse, Paul. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781854373687.

Michael Andrews (1928-1995) is regarded as one of the outstanding British painters of the late twentieth century. His subject matter, ranging from Soho haunts in the 1950s and the luminaries of Swinging London to seabeds, Scottish deer forests and Ayers Rock, is concerned with social anxieties - diffidence and bravado - and with desire, the nature of the sublime and the place of man in the scheme of things. Published to accompany the first comprehensive survey of the artists entire career and fully illustrated in colour, this book contains over 100 works along with many previously unpublished archive photographs. Two essays by the curators of the exhibition Paul Moorhouse and William Feaver discuss Andrewss work, his techniques and his imagery, and provide a vivid and powerful portrait of this pre-eminent painter.