Winifred Nicholson
liberation of colour
$78.26
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2016
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 |
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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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