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词条 Peter Kennard
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  1. Education

  2. Exhibitions and projects

  3. Personal life

  4. References

  5. External links

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}}Peter Kennard (born 17 February 1949[1]) is a London-born and based photomontage artist and Senior Research Reader in Photography, Art and the Public Domain[2] at the Royal College of Art.[3] Seeking to reflect his involvement in the anti-Vietnam War movement, he turned from painting to photomontage to better address his political views. He is best known for the images he created for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in the 1970s–80s including a détournement of John Constable's The Hay Wain called "Haywain with Cruise Missiles".[4]

Because many of the left-wing organisations and publications he used to work with have disappeared, Kennard has turned to using exhibitions, books and the internet for his work.[5]

Kennard has work in the public collections of several major London museums and the Arts Council of England.[3] He has his work displayed as part of Tate Britain's permanent collection and is on public view as part of 2013's rehang A Walk Through British Art.[6]

Education

A lifelong Londoner, Kennard was born on Elgin Avenue in Maida Vale.[7] He originally trained as a painter at the Byam Shaw School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London and later at the Royal College of Art, where he is now Senior Research Reader in Photography, Art, and the Public Domain.[5]

Exhibitions and projects

Kennard abandoned painting in the 1970s in search of new forms of expression that could bring art and politics together for a wider audience. This search has resulted in making photomontage and installation work over many years covering major political events.[3] The visual language he has developed to the present day uses common news imagery, photojournalism and the face.[8] He has often worked in collaboration with writers, photographers, filmmakers and artists such as Peter Reading, John Pilger and Jenny Matthews.

Dispatches from An Unofficial War Artist is his autobiography and was published in 2000. In it, Kennard writes about the possibilities of undertaking an aesthetic practice in relation to social change, and considers how his art has interacted with the politics of actual events. The narrative is thematic rather than chronological, showing how a visual motif can be re-used in different contexts. Kennard's original artwork is often reproduced alongside the newspaper or poster in which it appeared.[9]

Kennard produced a body of work addressing the second Iraq War in 2002.[10] John Berger said of this work:

In these memorable images, in these images that refuse to be forgotten, go very close to the griefs being inflicted – they are still-lifes of grief, and, at the same time includes the time-scale of the mountain. They are the opposite of news flashes. They are full of history's irony, fury and anger at the mistakes made in its name. They reveal the tawdriness of the Gang's half-truths. They acknowledge the pain of what is happening. They might be quoting Simone Weil who wrote: "There is a natural alliance between truth and affliction, because both of them are mute supplicants, eternally condemned to stand speechless in our presence." And they are exemplary because, in face of such inevitable speechlessness, they remind us of the need to speak out in protest, the protests of the dead and the living.[11]

Kennard's 2003 photomontage Photo Op, of Tony Blair taking a selfie against a backdrop of burning oil, was described by The Guardian as "the definitive work of art about the war".[12] It was created in Photoshop using an image of Blair taking a selfie during the 2005 General Election campaign. Kennard says he was trying to change the world and "portray Iraq as it happened and not wait until afterwards and make a history painting".[12]

Kennard's 2011 project was @earth, a story without words told in the language of photomontage.[13] It takes the form of a small book priced at £9.99, published by the Tate Gallery, which Kennard believed was a reasonably cheap and accessible way of getting his message to young people outside the artworld.[5] The book contains a variety of images from Kennard's 40-year career and, as a result, attracts the criticism that its targets are too general. Kennard's reply was that he wanted "to encourage people to think about their own situation and activate, but I'm not trying to tell them to do this or that. I'm just trying to show how I see the world at the moment."[5]

The idea has expanded to a re-appropriation and re-distribution of his images through online platforms such as Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter. G8 Protest Posters[14] is the latest of these projects that shares images "designed for protest". Created in 2013 in reaction to the 39th G8 summit in Enniskillen, Kennard has encouraged the public to "print, Tweet, Facebook, email and share these images as a sign of protest". He sees online distribution sites as "a valuable addition to the dissident artists toolbox. G8 is a charade masquerading as a serious conference, my posters attempt to rip through the lies and point to the world as in fact it is."[15]

Kennard has also executed a number of guerrilla street installations[16] and has said "if world leaders insist on assaulting our lives and livelihoods, let's hit back by assaulting their eyes." [17]

The first major retrospective of Kennard's work was held at the Imperial War Museum for a year from May 2015.[18] The show then moved to mac birmingham in 2016.[19]

Personal life

Kennard lives in Hackney, London.[20] His son is journalist Matthew Kennard.

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.peterkennard.com/ |title=Home |website=PeterKennard.com |date=4 November 2011 |accessdate=8 January 2018}}
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentId=520078&GroupID=520078 |title=News |date=21 August 2013 |website=Royal College of Art |accessdate=24 August 2013 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20130824144835/http://www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentId=520078&GroupID=520078 |archivedate=24 August 2013 |df=dmy-all }}
3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=503280 |title=Photography staff: Peter Kennard |website=Royal College of Art |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611102639/http://www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=503280 |archivedate=11 June 2011 |accessdate=5 November 2011}}
4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/kennard-haywain-with-cruise-missiles-t12484 |title='Haywain with Cruise Missiles', Peter Kennard, 1980 |website=Tate |accessdate=8 January 2018}}
5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/review/2072381/pictures-words |first=Diane |last=Smyth |title=Pictures without Words |website=British Journal of Photography |date=24 May 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111019172031/http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/review/2072381/pictures-words |archivedate=19 October 2011 |accessdate=4 November 2011}}
6. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/may/18/walk-through-british-art-tate-britain |title=Walk Through British Art – review |first=Laura |last=Cumming |date=18 May 2013 |newspaper=The Guardian |accessdate=8 January 2018}}
7. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04vz1wq |first=Robert |last=Elms |authorlink=Robert Elms |title=Listed Londoner: Peter Kennard |website=BBC Radio London |date=6 March 2017 |accessdate=31 May 2017}}
8. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/tateshots-peter-kennard-studio-visit |title=TateShots: Peter Kennard studio visit |website=Tate |date=14 April 2011 |accessdate=8 January 2018}}
9. ^{{cite book |last1=Kennard |first1=Peter |last2=Hopkinson |first2=Amanda |last3=Livingstone |first3=Ken |title=Dispatches from an unofficial war artist |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Dispatches_from_an_unofficial_war_artist.html?id=vrg4AQAAIAAJ |date=2000 |publisher=Lund Humphries |accessdate=8 January 2018 |via=Google Books }}
10. ^{{cite magazine |url=http://www.newstatesman.com/arts-and-culture/2008/01/art-work-banksy-palestinian |first=Peter |last=Kennard |title=Art Attack |magazine=New Statesman |date=17 January 2008 |accessdate=4 November 2011}}
11. ^{{cite book |title=Peter Kennard and Cat Picton Phillipps: Award |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Peter_Kennard_and_Cat_Picton_Phillipps.html?id=vYzqSAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y |date=2004 |publisher=Henry Peacock Gallery}}
12. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/oct/15/tony-blair-selfie-photo-op-imperial-war-museum |first=Jonathan |last=Jones |title=The Tony Blair 'selfie' Photo Op will have a place in history |newspaper=The Guardian |date=15 October 2013 |accessdate=10 August 2016}}
13. ^{{cite web |url=http://fryingpanfire.com/2011/06/peter-kennard-mumbles-at-me-for-tank-magazine |first=Leah |last=Borromeo |authorlink=Leah Borromeo |date=14 June 2011 |title=Peter Kennard mumbles at me for Tank Magazine |website=FryingPanFire |accessdate=8 January 2018}}
14. ^{{cite web |url=http://g8protestposters.tumblr.com |first=Peter |last=Kennard |title=G8 Protest Posters |website=Tumblr |accessdate=8 January 2018}}
15. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/b/blog/posters-stories-va-collection/g8-posters-peter-kennard |title=G8 Posters by Peter Kennard |date=19 June 2013 |website=Victoria & Albert Museum |accessdate=8 January 2018}}
16. ^{{cite web |url=http://metro.co.uk/2013/06/17/meet-the-artists-making-a-protest-about-the-g8-summit-3841159/ |title=British artist Peter Kennard on his posters protest about the G8 summit |first=Rahul |last=Verma |date=17 June 2013 |website=Metro |accessdate=8 January 2018}}
17. ^{{cite magazine |url=http://www.newstatesman.com/art-and-design/2013/06/peter-kennard-g8-protest-posters |first=Charlotte |last=Simmonds |title=Peter Kennard: G8 protest posters |date=7 June 2013 |magazine=New Statesman |accessdate=8 January 2018}}
18. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/sites/default/files/press-release/2015-at-IWM.pdf |title=What’s On at Imperial War Museums in 2015: Major Exhibitions |website=Imperial War Museums |accessdate=8 January 2018}}
19. ^{{cite web |url=https://macbirmingham.co.uk/exhibition/off-message |title=Peter Kennard: Off Message |website=mac birmingham |accessdate=8 January 2018}}
20. ^{{cite magazine |last=Coomer |first=Martin |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/art/peter-kennard-interview |title=Peter Kennard Interview |magazine=Time Out |date=5 May 2015 |accessdate=31 May 2017}}

External links

  • Peter Kennard homepage
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