Wilson Online Reference
Solkin 1982
Author
David Solkin
Title/Description
Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction
Publisher
Tate Gallery
Country
London, UK
Date of Publication
1982
Printed/Manuscript
Secondary published
Source Institution
The Tate Gallery, London
More Information
Catalogue accompanying the eponymous exhibition held at the Tate Gallery, National Museum of Wales Cardiff and Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1982-83 [London, Cardiff and New Haven 1982-83]. The exhibition was the largest ever assembled on Wilson and the catalogue included abundant new scholarship and critical analysis, prefaced with an updated biography of the artist and five contextualising essays. These argued for a new critical approach to Wilson's landscapes as active participants in dynamic social, political and cultural history. On both sides of the Atlantic the social and political reverberations of the exhibition were seismic and the catalogue became notorious. (For adverse commentary see for example Sutton 1983). It remains an indispensable historiographical milestone for Wilson studies.