Wilhelmina Barns-Graham : the glaciers / edited by Rob Airey, with a foreword by Martin Kemp, and with contributions by Holly Corfield Carr [and 6 others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kemp, Martin, author of introduction, etc.

Strang, Alice, 1973- author.

Heydon, Tilly, author.

Nienow, Peter, author.

Hallett, Alyson Sarah, author.

Cousins, Mark, author.

Carr, Holly Corfield, 1987- author.

Contributor:

Barns-Graham, Wilhelmina, 1912-2004

Airey, Rob, editor.

Pennington, Cassia, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barns-Graham, Wilhelmina, 1912-2004.

Barns-Graham, Wilhelmina.

Glaciers in art.

Physical Description:

128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Lund Humphries, 2024

Summary:

"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" -- from publisher's website.

Contents:

Foreword / Martin Kemp

Introduction / Rob Airey

1. Into the vortex: the glacier in Wilhelmina Barns-Graham's work / Alice Strang

2. Glaciers in the archive / Tilly Heydon

3. Art and ice loss: a glaciologist's look at Wilhelmina Barns-Graham's glaciers / Professor Peter Nienow

Poems from the end of the glacier / Alyson Hallett

To or about Wilhelmina Barns-Graham / Mark Cousins

in a few days a thinness / Holly Corfield Carr

Catalogue of glacier works / Rob Airey & Cassia Pennington

Select bibliography

Exhibitions

Acknowledgements

Contributor biographies

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-121).

ISBN:

1848226977

9781848226975

OCLC:

1419250806

Publisher Number:

CIPO000130329