- Hardcover: 497 pages
- Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd; illustrated edition edition (15 Jun 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 071955456X
- ISBN-13: 978-0719554568
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15 x 4.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 988,721 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A biography of Ben Nicholson (1894-1982), a leading light of the British modern movement. Instrumental in forging a bridge between retrogade London and members of the Paris avant-garde of the 30s, including Georges Braque, Piet Mondrian, Naum Gabo and Kandinsky, he was also the creator of one of the rich decade's most famous icons, his white reliefs. This book shows how Nicholson's personality contrasted strongly with the austere image progected by both himself and his critics. His was a Peter Pan character, obsessed with ball games and word play, a dandy whose life entailed a succession of triangular relationships in which he either strung along two women or dallied with other men's wives.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Having been a fan of Ben Nicholson for many years, I have to say many thanks to Sarah Jane Checkland for writing this book and doing so much research in it's preparation. In my view it is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how and why Nicholson was inspired to create some of the best art of the twentieth century. I totally agree with the previous reviewer, this is a fine biography and I believe the amount of factual detail given helps enormously in appreciating the work of Nicholson and his contemporaries. There are some photographs but no reproductions, so it's useful to have another book by your side (such as those by Norbert Lynton or Jeremy Lewison). I have no hesitation in awarding this book five stars, six if I could.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
and importance in the public eye. Let's face it, few people have any idea why Nicholson was so wonderful these days, a lamentable reality which Checkland goes a long way to addressing...I loved this book and it is incontrovertibly well-researched and written.More important, it has re-awakened a forgotten love for Ben, Winifred and Barbara Hepworth's art, and who could want more than that. The real test of a biography is, of course, the extent in which it deepens understanding and appreciation of the subject's contribution to their chosen field and that is of course where this biography succeeds, not thank the Lord in making us interested in Ben's brief flirtation with fringe religions.
Format:Hardcover
At the centre of this spider's web, of a Biography,with strands leading in a multitude of intriguing directions,sits one of the major artists of any period of English art history,revealed to us by a literary-portraitists of enormous skill and diligence.
This is one of the best artists-biographies that I have come across, written against the odds of lost material and a lack of co-operation from those who could have made the author's task much easier.
We are offered fly-on-the-wall insights into the back ground and circumstances from which emerged some of the major art and artists of the 20th century.Quite a feet,which leaves me looking forward to this author's future offerings.
This is one of the best artists-biographies that I have come across, written against the odds of lost material and a lack of co-operation from those who could have made the author's task much easier.
We are offered fly-on-the-wall insights into the back ground and circumstances from which emerged some of the major art and artists of the 20th century.Quite a feet,which leaves me looking forward to this author's future offerings.
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