Barry Martin became the most versatile and prolific British exponent of Kinetic Art in London in the ‘Swinging Sixties’ and early Seventies. To the generations still seeking to escape the towering influence of Henry Moore, Kinetic Art offered a European alternative to the Anglo-American options of Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, Conceptual Art and Minimalism. Martin’s subsequent visual research into the relationship between Space and Time opened up opportunities across media previously untried by many of his contemporaries. The artist has also found distinction as a chess player. Based on interviews and the personal archive of his multifaceted career, this biographical monograph vividly evokes the art, mind and lifestyle of an artist who championed the principles of modern art in Britain.
Julius Bryant is Keeper of Word & Image at the Victoria & Albert Museum, where he is responsible for paintings, prints, drawings, designs, photographs, architecture, manuscripts, the National Art Library and the Archive of Art & Design. His publications include Anthony Caro: a Life in Sculpture (2003) and several exhibition catalogues.
Adrian Glew is Curator of Archives, Tate Britain. He has edited Stanley Spencer: Letters and Writings (2001) and Wassily Kandinsky: Concerning the Spiritual in Art (2006) and is the author of Fluxbritannica: Aspects of the Fluxus Movement 1962-73 (1994).
Richard Humphreys is a Senior Curator: Programme Research at Tate, where he was formerly Head of Interpretation and Education. His publications include Kurt Schwitters (1985), Futurism (1999), Wyndham Lewis (2004) and The Tate Companion to British Art (2000)
Raymond Keene, OBE, Grand Master, is The Times chess correspondent and author of over 130 books on chess.
