GERALD LAING

Study for Capriccio

Catalogue raisonné no. 677

Artist's CR 616

2005

Kinkell

Oil on canvas

36 x 32 inches / 0 cm

Exhibitions:
• Gerald Laing: Iraq War Paintings, Kings College, Cambridge, 2005
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• Gerald Laing: Iraq War Paintings, Galerie Salvador, Paris, 2005
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Literature:
• Diana Newall/Grant Pooke, Art History: The Basics, Routledge, 2008
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• Mark Sheerin, 'Pop Art, politics and painting the Iraq war: Culture24 interviews artist Gerald Laing', Culture24.org.uk, 3 June
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Selected Citations and Comments

As an example of this self-conscious referencing of past styles, consider Study for Capriccio, 2005… Although its subject matter is powerful and compelling, Laing’s image is also a pastiche. It is an example of ‘double-coding’ which uses the familiar iconography and techniques of Pop art (of which Laing was an original exponent), whilst referencing the inhumane treatment of prisoners during the recent occupation of Iraq.

Grant Pooke and Diana Newell, Art History: The Basics, London, 2008

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