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Frances Hodgkins : European journeys / edited by Catherine Hammond and Mary Kisler.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2019Description: vii, 259 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 30 cmISBN:
  • 9781869408930
  • 1869408934
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Contents:
Chapter One. Introduction: Locating Frances Hodgkins / Catherine Hammond and Mary Kisler -- Chapter Two. Frances Hodgkins and British Modernism / Frances Spalding -- Frances Hodgkins: A Chronology / Alexa Johnston -- Chapter Three. Beginnings: New Zealand to Europe 1890–1914 / Mary Kisler -- Chapter Four. Encountering the Modern: Paris 1908–1912 / Elena Taylor -- Chapter Five. Frances Hodgkins Indoors: St Ives 1914–1919 / Julia Waite -- Chapter Six. The Experimental Years: England and France 1919–1932 / Mary Kisler -- Chapter Seven. New Perspectives: Spain in the 1930s / Antoni Ribas Tur and Mary Kisler -- Chapter Eight. The Path To Fame: Discovering England 1932–1947 / Mary Kisler -- Chapter Nine. Freedom and Happenstance: Frances Hodgkins' Materials and Technique / Sarah Hillary -- Frances Hodgkins: Travels in Europe and North Africa -- Frances Hodgkins: Exhibitions in Europe and North Africa -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Annotated Archives.
Summary: "New Zealand-born Frances Hodgkins (1869–1947) arrived in London in 1901 and, by the 1920s, had become a leading British modernist, exhibiting frequently with avant-garde artists such as Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. Published to coincide with a touring exhibition of her work initiated by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, this book explores Hodgkins as a traveller across cultures and landscapes – teaching and discovering the cubists in Paris, absorbing the landscape and light of Ibiza and Morocco, and exhibiting with the progressive Seven & Five Society in London. Complete with a rich visual chronology of the artist’s encounters abroad, alongside over one hundred of Hodgkins’ key paintings and drawings, the book is an illuminating journey that moves us from place to place through the writings of a number of distinguished national and international art historians, curators and critics: Frances Spalding (University of Cambridge, England), Alexa Johnston (Auckland-based writer and curator), Elena Taylor (University of New South Wales, Australia), Antoni Ribas Tur (Ara newspaper, Spain), and Julia Waite, Sarah Hillary, Catherine Hammond and Mary Kisler (Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand)"--Publisher information.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter One. Introduction: Locating Frances Hodgkins / Catherine Hammond and Mary Kisler -- Chapter Two. Frances Hodgkins and British Modernism / Frances Spalding -- Frances Hodgkins: A Chronology / Alexa Johnston -- Chapter Three. Beginnings: New Zealand to Europe 1890–1914 / Mary Kisler -- Chapter Four. Encountering the Modern: Paris 1908–1912 / Elena Taylor -- Chapter Five. Frances Hodgkins Indoors: St Ives 1914–1919 / Julia Waite -- Chapter Six. The Experimental Years: England and France 1919–1932 / Mary Kisler -- Chapter Seven. New Perspectives: Spain in the 1930s / Antoni Ribas Tur and Mary Kisler -- Chapter Eight. The Path To Fame: Discovering England 1932–1947 / Mary Kisler -- Chapter Nine. Freedom and Happenstance: Frances Hodgkins' Materials and Technique / Sarah Hillary -- Frances Hodgkins: Travels in Europe and North Africa -- Frances Hodgkins: Exhibitions in Europe and North Africa -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Annotated Archives.

"New Zealand-born Frances Hodgkins (1869–1947) arrived in London in 1901 and, by the 1920s, had become a leading British modernist, exhibiting frequently with avant-garde artists such as Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. Published to coincide with a touring exhibition of her work initiated by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, this book explores Hodgkins as a traveller across cultures and landscapes – teaching and discovering the cubists in Paris, absorbing the landscape and light of Ibiza and Morocco, and exhibiting with the progressive Seven & Five Society in London. Complete with a rich visual chronology of the artist’s encounters abroad, alongside over one hundred of Hodgkins’ key paintings and drawings, the book is an illuminating journey that moves us from place to place through the writings of a number of distinguished national and international art historians, curators and critics: Frances Spalding (University of Cambridge, England), Alexa Johnston (Auckland-based writer and curator), Elena Taylor (University of New South Wales, Australia), Antoni Ribas Tur (Ara newspaper, Spain), and Julia Waite, Sarah Hillary, Catherine Hammond and Mary Kisler (Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand)"--Publisher information.

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