Kyffin Williams - The Light and the Dark

Williams achieved both success and remarkable popular appeal. Featuring some of the finest examples of an impressive oeuvre, this book - scholarly robust and visually enticing - is essential reading for all those who appreciate the importance of this gifted British painter.

List of contents

Introduction; Chapter 1: Inheriting Landscape; Chapter 2: Studying at the Slade; Chapter 3: The Alchemy of Oils; Chapter 4: European Horizons; Chapter 5: Truth and Interpretation; Chapter 6: The Continuing Excitement of Paint; Chapter 7: A Lasting Legacy; Epilogue; Chronology; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

About the author

Rian Evans is a writer and critic. She has written about Kyffin Williams previously and was most recently the editor of the Collected Poems of John Ormond. Nicholas Sinclair is a photographer and was godson to Kyffin Williams. He has been active in promoting Kyffin Williams' career since the artist's death and photographed many of the works illustrated in this publication.

Summary

Williams achieved both success and remarkable popular appeal. Featuring some of the finest examples of an impressive oeuvre, this book – scholarly robust and visually enticing – is essential reading for all those who appreciate the importance of this gifted British painter.

Product details

• Authors: Rian Evans, Rian Sinclair Evans, Evans Rian, Nicholas Sinclair, Sinclair Nicholas
• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781848222403
• ISBN: 978-1-84822-240-3
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Wales, ART / Individual Artists / General, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Painting & paintings, Individual artists, art monographs, Paintings and painting, Wales / Cymru