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Zusatztext '...long overdue book...this meticulously researched! sumptuously illustrated publication is really a particular and personal history of British modern art;...This is a welcome addition to the critical writings on 20th-century British art and politics.' Ga lleries Magazine Informationen zum Autor Lynne Green is an art historian whose specialist fields are British modernism and contemporary art. She was the co-founder and former editor of Contemporary Art (now Contemporary ) magazine and was formerly an exhibition organiser at the Hayward Gallery before becoming curator of Southampton City Art Gallery. Her previous publications include Painting with Smoke: David Roberts Raku Potter (2000, revised edition 2009) and Yorkshire Sculpture Park: Landscape for Art (2008). Klappentext British abstract painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004) played a key role in the development of modern abstract art in Britain. This new paperback edition of Lynne Green's classic monograph completes the story of the artist's life and work with a new Coda covering Barns-Graham's final years. Zusammenfassung British abstract painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004) played a key role in the development of modern abstract art in Britain. This new paperback edition of Lynne Green's classic monograph completes the story of the artist's life and work with a new Coda covering Barns-Graham's final years. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Editorial Note; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Foreword! Martin Kemp; Preface to the Second Edition; Prologue; 1 Childhood and the First Stirrings of Art; 2 Art College and a Wider World; 3 A Cornish Haven : The First Years of Freedom; 4 'Britain's Foremost Woman Abstract Painter'; 5 Variations and Meditations; 6 Completing the Circle; 7 Today is a Gift: Coda; Notes; Chronology; Works in Public and Corporate Collections; Bibliography; Index.
