中文简介：

英国当代艺术家Richard Smith的**本专著，他是英国艺术发展中的关键人物。Richard Smith（1931-2016）是他那一代人中最具原创性的画家之一，也是最被低估的画家之一。正如Barbara Rose在谈到1975年Smith在泰特画廊的大型回顾展时所说的那样，他“既与主流社会潮流接轨，又与主流社会脱节……既时髦又冷漠”。他后来在某种程度上不受关注，部分原因是他脱离了主流，以及他经常在英国和美国之间切换工作室，尽管这有助于为他的创作充电。

本书追溯了Smith的整个职业生涯，从早期波普风格绘画的突破性抒情抽象，到他在1960年代创作的激进的异形画布和三维作品，再到1972年开始的“风筝”作品，最终，他又回到了平面画布。泰特高级策展人Chris Stephens博士非常了解Smith，他对Smith的艺术和生活做了广泛的介绍。David Alan Mellor教授调查并解释了推动Smith艺术的英美文化背景，而Alex Massouras的两篇主题文章“英国青年”和“从电影到飞行”则从新的角度探讨了Smith的原创性。本书后记由编辑Martin Harrison撰写完成。

英文简介：

The first monograph on Richard Smith, a key figure in the development of British art. Richard Smith (1931-2016) was one of the most original painters of his generation, and one of the most underrated. As Barbara Rose said of Smith's major Tate Gallery retrospective in 1975, he was 'at once in and out of touch with the currents of the mainstream ... au courant and aloof at the same time.' That he latterly slipped under the radar to some extent is partly explained by his detachment from the mainstream as well as by his frequent switching of studios between England and the USA, although this helped charge his creative batteries. He is the only artist of his stature who has not been represented by a monograph, which the dazzling presentation of images in Richard Smith: Artworks now fulfils. It has been produced with the generous collaboration of the Richard Smith Foundation.

Richard Smith: Artworks traces Smith's entire career, from the breakthrough lyrical abstraction of the early Pop-inflected paintings, through the radical shaped canvases and three-dimensional works that he produced in the 1960s, to the 'Kite' works beginning in 1972 and, eventually, his return to the flat canvas. As a Senior Curator at Tate, Dr Chris Stephens knew Smith well, and he contributes a wide-ranging introduction to Smith's art and life. Prof David Alan Mellor investigates and explains the Anglo-American cultural contexts that drove Smith's art, while Alex Massouras's two themed essays, 'Young and British' and 'From Motion Pictures to Flight', explore Smith's originality from fresh perspectives. The book is completed with an Afterword by its editor, Martin Harrison.