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The Alfred Wallis Factor

The Alfred Wallis Factor

by David Wilkinson
Paperback
Publication Date: 31/08/2017

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Since his death in 1942, St Ives has become marinated in the spirit of the naive painter, Alfred Wallis. Naum Gabo, the Russian Constructivist, felt that Wallis's gift as an artist was that he never knew he was one. His unconventional approach and the innocence of his personal method of making art marked Alfred Wallis, even after his death, as a crucial figure in the modernist movement. The art scene in St Ives during World War II is depicted vividly in The Alfred Wallis Factor which illustrates the birth of modernism in the small fishing port in the far south-west of England. With dominant personalities like Sven Berlin, Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Adrian Stokes, Bernard Leach, Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and Patrick Heron, it was inevitable that personal relationships would both form and fracture. Though causes would range from the banal to the bizarre, David Wilkinson never loses focus on the high stakes for which these characters were playing: the creation of their work, and reputations, of lasting significance. Their passion was strong and their ambition even stronger. The Alfred Wallis Factor tells the story of this extraordinary painter's long-lasting influence on - and beyond - modernism: David Wilkinson expounds the events around and following the artist's death, assessing the roles of friends and rivals in making Alfred Wallis a benchmark of modern British art. The Alfred Wallis Factor is a comprehensive examination of a troubled era, in which life met war and changed the destiny of the art world.
ISBN:
9780718894979
9780718894979
Category:
Biography: arts & entertainment
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
31-08-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Lutterworth Press, The
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
90x156x234mm
Weight:
0.49kg
David Wilkinson

David Wilkinson is a practising architect with a Certificate in Gardening from The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, London.

He has been President of The Friends of The Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne as well as the Victorian Committee Chair of Open Gardens Australia.

He is the author of Leslie Wilkinson: A Practical Idealist. 

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