William Nicholson by Sanford Schwartz
William Nicholson (1872-1949) was an painter of ravishingly beautiful still lifes and landscapes. Yet he holds an uncertain place in British art, largely because he left no statements about his aims, and, indirectly, because his son, the better-known artist Ben Nicholson, subtly downplayed his father's achievements. In this lively book, the first full critical biography of William Nicholson, Sanford Schwartz argues that the artist's output has a coherent philosophical and psychological unity very much in harmony with his times, and he links Nicholson's work in fascinating ways to that of his fellow artists. Schwartz also portrays Nicholson's personal life in a more complex light, finding that it was a series of rivalries and collaborations with many individuals, and that Nicholson's uneasy relationship with his son Ben plagued him for years. Generously illustrated with paintings, drawings and photographs, many of which are reproduced for the first time, this book reassesses Nicholson's achievement and position within twentieth-century art.-
English Art and Modernism, 1900-39
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The Royal Palaces of Tudor England
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Kings and Connoisseurs
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Becket's Crown
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Classical Architecture in Britain
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Sir Thomas Lawrence
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Nicholas Hawksmoor
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The Genius of Robert Adam
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Georgian London
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Medieval London Houses
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Victorian Sculpture
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Whistler's Venice
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Rubens and England
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Interior House-painting Colours and Technology, 1615-1840
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Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth-Century Rome
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Alfred Gilbert
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A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701-1800
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New Art/New World
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Churches in Early Medieval Ireland
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Hanging the Head
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Greenwich
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The Geographies of Englishness
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Holbein and England
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Fashion and Fiction
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Turner in the South
Sanford Schwartz, a freelance art writer, has contributed to the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker and the New Republic and is the author of several books.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780300095432 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300095430 |
| Title | William Nicholson |
| Author | Sanford Schwartz |
| Series | The Paul Mellon Centre For Studies In British Art |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 2004-08-11 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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