THE WORLD OF BERYL COOK

From plump ladies at lunch to risqué nights in Plymouth pubs, Beryl Cook's immediately recognizable and widely popular work is celebrated in this generously illustrated publication that covers her entire career.

For over forty years Cook's work has captured moments of social history to create a perceptive record of life in the second half of the twentieth century. Offering a unique chronicle of British life, her paintings present ordinary people going about their daily activities - girls in the disco, in their underwear or shopping at the mall; sailors on shore leave; men at the pub, watching strippers; and everybody having a good time. More recently her work has featured international locations such as Paris, Barcelona, New York, Buenos Aires; and Las Vegas, where Cook's eye for the simple pleasures in life finds charming and revealing vignettes in the most unlikey places. Beryl Cook's work has been celebrated iin numerous exhibitions, culminating in the largest survey show of her work to date held at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, UK, inthe summer of 2007.