Group show ‘Blood on Paper: the Art of the Book’ explores the ways in which the book has been treated by leading artists of today and the recent past. Focusing on new and contemporary work, the exhibition selects books that reveal both the creative process and the soul of the artist in question. Artists represented range from Matisse, Picasso and Braque to Anselm Kiefer, Anish Kapoor and Georg Baselitz. Almost all notable artists of the 20th and 21st centuries have produced books, or works that refer to books: those represented in the exhibition will also include Balthus, Louise Bourgeois, Daniel Buren, Anthony Caro, Eduardo Chillida, Francesco Clemente, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Sol Lewitt, Richard Long, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg and many others whose names are synonymous with art today.
Blood on Paper: the Art of the Book
Victoria and Albert Museum
15 April – 29 June 2008

The Secret Life of Plants, 2001-02 Branches, plaster, wire and lead on canvas 74 13/16 x 129 15/16 in. (190 x 330 cm)
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