Interviews With Artists: Michael Peppiatt in conversation with Martin Gayford

Sunday, 09 September 2012

4.30pm, London Jewish Cultural Centre
Michael Peppiatt, who has incorporated forty-five of the most noteworthy and fascinating of his conversations with artists into his latest book, Interviews with Artists, talks to art critic Martin Gayford as part of the Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festestival. From the world-famous to the under-recognized, including Dubuffet, Sonia Delaunay, Francis Bacon, Henry Moore, Balthus and Cartier-Bresson, Peppiatt approaches his subjects with a characteristic mix of passion, insight and humour in a book that is consistently entertaining and informative, as the artists open up in unexpected ways about their work and their lives.

Time: 4.30-5.30pm
Venue: London Jewish Cultural Centre, Ivy House, London, NW11 7SX
Tickets: £7. Visit the official event page to book.

More about Michael Peppiatt

Michael Peppiatt, internationally respected as an expert on 20th-century art, began his career in 1964, while still a student at Cambridge University, by writing exhibition reviews for the London Observer. Through the 1970s Michael reported on cultural events across Europe for the New York Times and the Financial Times. In 1985, Michael became owner, editor and publisher of Art International, and in 1994 Michael returned to the UK with his wife, the art historian Jill Lloyd, and their two children to London, where he wrote his biography of the painter Francis Bacon, whose close friend and commentator he had been for thirty years, Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma. In addition to his writing career, Michael has several new exhibitions under way, including a Giacometti exhibition, Alberto Giacometti: Portraits of his Inner Circle, which will be shown in Hamburg in Winter 2013.

More about 'Interviews with Artists'

A renowned curator and respected insider of the international art scene since the mid-1960s, Michael Peppiatt has spent his professional life with many of the greatest artists of the 20th century. His close friendships and frequent studio visits with Dubuffet, Sonia Delaunay, Francis Bacon, Henry Moore, Balthus, Oldenburg, Brassai and Cartier-Bresson, among many others, have produced an incredible archive of interviews, from formal question-and-answer sessions to off-the-cuff conversations.

These interviews combine to give a unique perspective on art from the Second World War to the present day. Peppiatt has selected forty-five of the most noteworthy and fascinating of his conversations with artists, from the world-famous to the under-recognized. The author approaches his subjects with a characteristic mix of passion, insight and humour in a book that is consistently entertaining and informative, as the artists open up in unexpected ways about their work and their lives.