Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

The Glaciers

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

In May 1949, the Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004) visited the Grindelwald Glacier in Switzerland. It was a trip which would have a profound and lasting impact on her work. Charting the journey, the beautiful work it stimulated and wider questions around glacial landscapes, then and now, this publication provides insights that will expand our understanding of both an acclaimed body of work and the artist who created it.That Barns-Graham produced her final glacier painting in 1994, some 45 years after her sole visit to Switzerland, is testament to the influence that the experience had on her. So too are her 100 or so individual glacier works - made first between 1949 and 1952 and then in revisiting the subject between 1976 and 1994. Including a complete catalogue of the glacier paintings, this book presents the definitive account of a trip that would transform the artistic imagination of one of the foremost British painters of the twentieth century.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-10-07
Mått:220 x 260 x 11 mm
Vikt:620 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:128
Förlag:Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
ISBN:9781848226975

Utforska kategorier

Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Målarkonst inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Rob Airey is the Director of the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust. He has worked in collections management at Tate and the Henry Moore Foundation and in curatorial roles at the Royal Cornwall Museum and the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University. H.R. Corfield Carr is a poet, writer and researcher. Mark Cousins is a Scottish-Irish filmmaker and writer. His multi-screen installation, Like a Huge Scotland (2022), was inspired by Barns-Graham's glacier paintings. Alyson Hallet is a prize-winning poet with an extensive practice of collaboration with visual artists, composers, scientists, glassmakers and sculptors. Tilly Heydon is Project Archivist at the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust. Peter Nienow is Professor of Glaciology at Edinburgh University. Cassia Pennington is Collections Manager at the Wilhelmina-Barns Graham Trust. Alice Strang is an independent art historian and curator, as well as a Senior Specialist in Modern and Contemporary Art at Lyon & Turnbull auctioneers.

Recensioner i media

‘This is an enthralling book, combining factual information, poetry, historical records, photographs, letters, and a complete illustrated catalogue of the 101 works by Barns-Graham directly connected to the Grindelwald trip. The book has sections written by contributors from different backgrounds, including poets, art historians, and even a professor of glaciology. The eclectic mix of contributions perfectly matches what Barns-Graham herself said about her experience on the glacier: that it made her want to paint the landscape from all angles at once. This book tries, very effectively, to do something similar: exploring Barns-Graham’s glacial epiphany and its transformative impact on her work from different angles all at once.’ – Peter G. Knight, H-Net

Innehållsförteckning

1 Foreword; 2 Introduction; 3 Into the Vortex; 4 Glaciers in the Archive; 5 Art and Ice-loss: a glaciologist’s look at Wilhelmina Barns-Graham’s Glaciers; 6 To or About Wilhelmina Barns-Graham; 7 Poems from End of the Glacier; 8 Catalogue of Glacier works; 9 in a few days a thinness; Exhibitions; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Picture credits; Contributor biographies; Index