Download or read book The St Ives Artists written by Michael Bird and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St Ives is unique in British art history. Between the Second World War and the 1970s, many progressive artists chose to work and often settle around this small port in the far west of Cornwall.Drawing on fresh research, Michael Bird has created a fascinating and highly readable account of St Ives and its artists.
Download or read book Barbara Hepworth Sculpting Modernism written by Rachel Boyd Hall and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book St Ives Artists written by Virginia Button and published by Tate. This book was released on 2003 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The achievement of Christopher Wood has often been overshadowed by the legend that grew up around his life after his dramatic suicide at the age of 29. Increasingly, however, critics have come to see his work, particularly the output of the last two years of his life, as having a pivotal role in the development of modernism in Britain. The integrity of Wood's endeavour, the combination of self-confidence and uncertainty, accomplishment and awkwardness gives his paintings a very human quality that continues to be recognised and admired by audiences and painters today.
Download or read book St Ives Artists written by Penelope Curtis and published by Tate. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penelope Curtis tells the story of the life and work of one of the central figures of 20th century sculpture. She discusses her art in the light of Hepworth's contemporaries, among them Henry Moore and Ben Nicholson.
Download or read book Patrick Heron written by Michael McNay and published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises. This book was released on 2002 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major theme of Patrick Heron's creative life was Cornwall and his work was steeped in locality. This book argues that Heron's great achievement was indeed to redefine the meaning of provinciality.
Download or read book Modern Art and St Ives written by Paul Denison and published by Tate. This book was released on 2014 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this new exploration of modern art and St Ives, works by St Ives artists are looked at in the context of their contemporaries in Europe, North America and beyond. The work of this period includes the utopian ideal of constructivism and the tradition of craft and the handmade. Paintings, sculpture and ceramics - drawn from public and private collections in the UK and abroad - richly illustrate how artists' engagement with St Ives was a part of the global art scene of the twentieth century." -- back cover.
Download or read book Alfred Wallis written by Robert Jones and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book St Ives Artists written by Margaret Garlake and published by Tate. This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Garlake's study of Peter Lanyon provides a unique survey of his life and work, from his childhood friendship with Patrick Heron to international acclaim in the 1960s. He was the only Cornishman among the leading members of the St. Ives group.
Download or read book St Ives 1883 1993 written by Marion Whybrow and published by ACC Distribution. This book was released on 1994 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major artists, past and present, such as Lanyon, Heron, Nicholson, Mitchell, Hepworth, Frost, Gabo, Barns-Graham, Leach and Hamada came to live in St Ives and recognised a unique creative environment which stimulated their ideas.
Download or read book The Dark Monarch written by Michael Bracewell and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the influence of folklore, mysticism, mythology and the occult on the development of modernism and surrealism in Britain. This book features the works of both historic and contemporary artists, and considers the influence of neo-romantic and arcane themes on a significant strand of British art practice.
Download or read book Alfred Wallis written by Edwin Mullins and published by Unicorn Publishing Group. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallis was a semi-literate Cornish fisherman, a little mentally unbalanced and largely deaf, who took up painting at the age of seventy, never having received any tuition. He painted largely out of loneliness, selling his pictures for a few pence to anyone who wanted them. He died in a workhouse above Penzance at the age of eighty-seven. Wallis used to paint old scraps of cardboard, most of them oddly shaped and supplied by the local grocer. He insisted on using ship s paint, a medium which he understood, and he employed very few colours. His subject was usually the sea and boats - scenes he had known during his early days as an Atlantic seaman and offshore fisherman. Painting was for him a dip into the memories of the past. Despite his lack of training, during his lifetime Wallis had a few distinguished patrons, for the most part artists, scholars and museum officials, among whom were Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and H. S. Ede (then at the Tate Gallery)."
Download or read book St Ives Artists written by Edmund De Waal and published by Tate. This book was released on 1998 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Leach was the preeminent artist potter of this century. Early in his career he spent 12 formative years in Japan. Returning to England in 1920, he set up a studio in St. Ives. Leach's influence on the growth of the studio pottery movement, both in Japan and in the West, has been profound. His making of ceramics and his teaching of some of the foremost artist-potters of the period gives him a central place in the international history of decorative arts.
Download or read book St Ives Gallery written by St Ives Gallery and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book St Ives and British Modernism written by Brandon Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Borlase Smart written by Marion Whybrow and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borlase Smart (1881-1947) is today best known for his seascapes. Here, the author records the life and work of the artist and the mportant role he played in supporting and encouraging younger artists in St Ives intent on exploring abstraction in their work, despite facing charges of disloyalty from his fellow Royal Academicians.
Download or read book The Shining Sands written by Tom Cross and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of the colony of artists whose bold, vibrant style was inspired by the landscape and people of West Cornwall, and who gave rise to one of the most significant art movements of modern times.
Download or read book St Ives 1860 1930 written by David Tovey and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique social history of the St Ives art colony not only looks at the way of life enjoyed by the artistic community, but also assesses, for the first time, the impact of the artists on the town and the townsfolk. In addition to well-known names, such as Adrian Stokes, Julius Olsson and William Titcomb, there were many other long-term resident artists, who enjoyed varying degrees of success in the art world, but who had much appreciated talents in other directions, as, for instance, photographers, comic artists, designers, architects, writers, musicians, actors or sportsmen. After considering the surprising diversity of their backgrounds, the book looks at the range of accomodation that the artists chose - from hotels, humble lodgings, rented homes of varying standards and sizes, in and out of town, to purpose-built architect-designed dream homes. It then looks extensively at the wide range of old buildings in the fishing quarter that were commandeered for studios - net lofts, music pavilions, mine engine houses etc, as well as the complexes on Porthmeor, many of which have now proved to be purpose-built by local entrepreneurs.
