Stezaker biography of william
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John Stezaker
British conceptual artist
John Grenville Stezaker (STEZ-ə-kər;[1] born 1949) is a British conceptual artist.
Biography and career
Stezaker attended the Slade School of Art in London in his early teens,[2] he graduated with a Higher Diploma in Fine Art in 1973. In the early 1970s, he was among the first wave of British conceptual artists to react against what was then the predominance of Pop art.[3]
Solo exhibitions for Stezaker were rare for sometime, however, in the mid-2000s, his work was rediscovered by the art market;[3] he is now collected by several international collectors and museums.[3]
His work is surreal in tone and is often made using collage and the appropriation of pre-existing images such as postcards, film stills, and publicity photographs.[3] Art historian Julian Stallabrass said, "The contrast at the heart of these works [by Stezaker] is not between represented and real, but be