Gathering notice in newspapers under the headlines "He paints to Rock and Roll, " Robyn Denny became one of the leading London painters in the 1960s-a pioneer of a significant kind of Hard Edge abstraction which was distinctly different to the dominant American abstraction of the time. Yet for more that a quarter of a century now, the course of Denny's work has been publicly uncharted. But just as there is currently under way a more considered historical reassessment of twentieth century abstract art, so Denny's extraordinary odyssey-through his idiosyncratic Action painting, Hard Edge, and Postmodern lyrical-colourism - is finally being rediscovered. This publication will re-examine the little known Denny of the late 70s to the present, setting it alongside his more renowned painting from the 60s. The book will give context and a frame of critical understanding to the career of one of the most elusive figures in the art of the half century.
Gathering notice in newspapers under the headlines "He paints to Rock and Roll, " Robyn Denny became one of the leading London painters in the 1960s-a pioneer of a significant kind of Hard Edge abstraction which was distinctly different to the dominant American abstraction of the time. Yet for more that a quarter of a century now, the course of Denny's work has been publicly uncharted. But just as there is currently under way a more considered historical reassessment of twentieth century abstract art, so Denny's extraordinary odyssey-through his idiosyncratic Action painting, Hard Edge, and Postmodern lyrical-colourism - is finally being rediscovered. This publication will re-examine the little known Denny of the late 70s to the present, setting it alongside his more renowned painting from the 60s. The book will give context and a frame of critical understanding to the career of one of the most elusive figures in the art of the half century.