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Ben Nicholson

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Provides a succinct and insightful introduction to a little-known period of the artist’s career: his years in Switzerland.

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Ben Nicholson: Distant Planes provides a succinct and insightful introduction to a little-known period of the artist’s career: his years in Switzerland. Nicholson is one of the great British modernists of the twentieth century and this publication includes contributions from the leading specialists in the field, with original essays by Dr Lee Beard, director of the Ben Nicholson catalogue raisonné project, Peter Khoroche, author of Ben Nicholson: Drawings and Painted Reliefs (2002), and Chris Stephens, Director of the Holburne Museum, Bath. In 1958, at the height of his creative powers and buoyed by recent accolades at the Venice Biennale and elsewhere, Nicholson left behind the coastal wilds of Cornwall for the serene beauty of Lake Maggiore. With a seemingly inexhaustible index of formal ideas, in Switzerland he returned with renewed vigour to the carved relief. Piano Nobile’s publication is richly illustrated and includes several major reliefs which are presented alongside landscape drawings, both of which explore a poetic sense of place that was crucial to Nicholson’s work during the period. It also includes previously unpublished material relating to Nicholson and his Swiss period.

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Weight 0.988 kg
Dimensions 28 × 25 × 2 cm
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Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

88

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

759.2 (edition:23)

Readership

Professional and scholarly / Code: H