
Ben Nicholson
Distant Planes
Piano Nobile Publications (Publisher)
Published on 15. November 2020
Book
Hardback
88 pages
978-1-901192-56-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 raisonne 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 It also includes previously unpublished material relating to Nicholson and his Swiss period.
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 It also includes previously unpublished material relating to Nicholson and his Swiss period.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
37
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 290 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
988 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-901192-56-8 (9781901192568)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Director of the Ben Nicholson catalogue raisonne project Director of the Holburne Museum, Bath Author of Ben Nicholson: Drawings and Painted Reliefs (2002)
Content
The Real Ben Nicholson, Ben Nicholson: Late Reliefs and Landscape Drawings, Unfolding Ideas: Art, Process and Place, Works, Endnotes, List of Works, Travelogue 1955 -1979, Index, Notes on Contributors, Acknowledgements