Winifred Nicholson, 9781781300466
Paperback
A long-overdue assessment of this innovative artist’s works and life

Winifred Nicholson

liberation of colour

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  • Paperback

    144 pages

  • Release Date

    31 October 2016

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Summary

This new publication explores the whole career of Winifred Nicholson with a special emphasis on her theories of colour. Using specific paintings to examine her ideas and writings about colour the book includes her late ‘prismatic’ pictures which have never been properly explained. Throughout her life Winifred Nicholson was interested in prisms and rainbows, but when she was given some prisms by a physicist friend in the mid 1970s her painting took on a new direction. Looking through a prism s…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781781300466
ISBN-10:1781300461
Author:Jovan Nicholson
Publisher:Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd
Imprint:Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:144
Release Date:31 October 2016
Weight:768g
Dimensions:237mm x 279mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

‘Jovan Nicholson’s depth of knowledge informs the selection and the catalogue…the long introductory essay enables the viewer to track sufficient details about Winifred’s life through her art’

‘Jovan Nicholson’s depth of knowledge informs the selection and the catalogue…the long introductory essay enables the viewer to track sufficient details about Winifred’s life through her art’

–Frances Spalding, Apollo Magazine, 1st December 2016

About The Author

Jovan Nicholson

Jovan Nicholson is an independent art historian with a particular interest in modern British art. He has worked on various projects with the Henry Moore Foundation, the Barbican Art Gallery, the Russian Museum, St Petersburg, the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, the British Council, organising exhibitions between Russia and Britain. He has been an adviser on a number of exhibitions, the latest being ‘Art & Life’ for which he wrote the accompanying catalogue. has written extensively on Winifred Nicholson, and is an acknowledged expert on her work. He is a grandson of Ben and Winifred Nicholson.

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