David Barton; Lot of 26 artist's books -
All titles are: Raw material, Raw material 2, Raw material 3, Below & above, Growth & decay, Struggle, My undoing, My undoing 2 (all titles ), In the making, Substancial fragment, As it happens & retrieval, Stretch, Being place, What takes place, Ascending & descending, Making space, Investigation, Investigation 2, Investigation 3, Abandon I, Abandon II, Abandon III (all titles ), At the breaking, Swoop, Fall and Threshold (all ).Allmost all books meisure 21 x 15 cm. exept 'Swoop' (21 x 17 cm.) and 'Threshold' (21 x 24 cm.). Condition is as new.In the early s David Barton moved from the self-assured Lancashire mill-town of Bury to the melting pot of cosmopolitan London to study at Goldsmiths College School of Art. Here, he was to meet the renowned artist, educator and writer, Anton Ehrenzweig, author of The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination (), whose tutelage and influential study of the psychology of creativity would have a long-lasting and profound affect on Barton’s future artistic and teaching career. In Barton published his first collection of drawings, brought together under the title, Vulnerable Supplicant, and has since produced a further 250 books, either as individual publications or several within a series, each perfect bound.Preferring to draw in isolation, he has worked in collaboration on the rarest of occasions. Barton draws every day of the year. He draws in his studio, perched upon a makeshift stool, the loose seat tilting forward till it settles into its optimum angle for the hand-eye relationship. The drawing paper (always foolscap) rests on a cascade of other sheets that have come to rest across his desk in a perfect landslide. The cast of north light through the sash window frame melds with the glow of the fluorescent bulb hanging above his head, falling onto the exact same spot which it has illuminated for the past 38 years in Hither Green. Read More