6 days ago - ANNOUNCING A NEW ANTHOLOGY BY. HIGHLAND ARTS WRITER IAN MCKAY. NORTHWEST HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS: NORTHWEST
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CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF ARTS WRITING ANNOUNCING A NEW ANTHOLOGY BY HIGHLAND ARTS WRITER IAN MCKAY NORTHWEST HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS: NORTHWEST HIGHLANDS-BASED ARTS WRITER & CULTURE CORRESPONDENT IAN MCKAY WILL SOON CELEBRATE 30 YEARS OF WRITING ON THE ARTS WITH A NEW COLLECTION OF ESSAYS. WRITING ON THE WALL is a book that will bring together 30 years of Ian McKay’s writing on the visual arts, crafts, and culture industries from across Europe. The anthology (to be published Autumn 2018) will include the best of McKay’s art reviews, essays, and feature articles for art, photography, and cinema magazines, as well as journal articles and extracts from his books on European art of the past 100 years. Throughout the 1990s, Ian McKay was a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines that included: The Independent on Sunday; The Press & Journal; Apollo; Art and Design; Art Monthly; Arts Review; Artscribe; Contemporary Art (for which he was Assistant Editor); Creative Camera; The Face; Geographical Magazine; Sight & Sound magazine, and Photoicon. The anthology will include a Foreword by the arts writer and publisher, Mike Von Joel, who writes: “In the late-1980s, I published some insightful texts by a young writer with a fresh take on events and who could spot the emerging trends of the day. Over twenty years later, that same intrepid scribe became an integral part of my team for Photoicon, with the hazy title of Editor at Large in Europe. Some of Ian McKay’s most insightful texts on photography were printed in Photoicon.”
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Beginning with an article for the Scottish regional paper, The Press & Journal, in 1988 (about an artist working in Stromness) however, a common thread that runs through the book will be Ian McKay’s frequent return to writing about Scottish Art, which he has done much to promote over the past 30 years. As Professor Paul Coldwell has written of Ian McKay’s writing style, and his scrupulous attention to detail in the work of the artists, craftmakers, and cinematographers: “If one required an exemplar of insightful writing about an artist and their art, this should be in the frame.” – Prof. Paul Coldwell, ‘Art in Print’.
The essays, analyses, reviews, and critical writings in this 300 page anthology will be drawn from dozens of periodicals and newspapers, and represent Ian McKay’s Europe-wide travels as an arts correspondent during a period of significant social and political change; from the discovery of a new world of art that until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 had been largely invisible in the West, to his investigations into the arts and culture of the wider Eastern Bloc states as he travelled throughout a postcold-war Middle and East Europe. McKay’s travels as an Arts Correspondent eventually took him to some unlikely places for an art critic, including the war-torn Balkans, and into the last European dictatorship (Belarus) where he interviewed artists who exhibited their work under threat of imprisonment as political dissidents.
WRITING ON THE WALL: ESSAYS ON ART & CULTURE – 1988-2018 by Ian McKay is due to be published midOctober, 2018, to coincide with the author’s first review as a young freelance for the Scottish regional press.
