Grain of Concrete: Utopia & Entropy David Hepher

A monograph on the work of David Hepher written by art critic, author and documentary film-maker Ben Lewis. The publication charts Hepher’s life and work from the 1950s to the present day, tracing a path that begins in an era of the last century that was highly suspicious of figurative painting, through to the recent re-evaluation and rise to prominence of post-war British Art within global art history. Aligning the engagement of his work with the critical discourses surrounding the ‘end of painting’ and conceptual and minimalist strategies throughout the 1960s and 1970s, this book presents Hepher’s oeuvre as a “British realist response to modernism” and a highly theorised engagement with painting. With over 250 colour illustrations, this is the largest book to have been published on Hepher’s practice to date.