Taking as his subject icons of consumerism and American popular culture Derek Boshier made his name in the 1960s as one of the key proponents of British Pop Art along with contemporaries David Hockney Peter Blake and Pauline Boty Since then his output has been exceptionally diverse including collage book design set design and illustration as well as photography film and sculpturebrbriDerek Boshier RethinkReentryi traces Boshiers formidable career Beginning with his rise to prominence in the early 1960s it follows his abandonment of painting in the 1970s and his experimentation with new modes of expression such as collage and illustration as exemplified by his iconic sleeve design for David Bowies album iLodgeri and his drawings for CLASH 2nd SongbookbrbrThe chapters on the 1980s detail Boshiers return to painting in particular his adoption of the Texan cowboy as the subject for his Cowboy series The 1990s saw him relocate to Los Angeles where he encountered a culture and iconography that provided rich source material for his later worksbrbrFeaturing essays by leading academics curators critics and practitioners each of which is introduced by a new Boshier artwork this is the definitive monograph of this most distinctive of great British artists
