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Mary Fedden: Enigmas and Variations

Name: Mary Fedden: Enigmas and Variations
Brand: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
SKU: 9781848221543
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Contributors:

Christopher Andreae

Publisher:

Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Art

Book Subcategory:

History, Techniques

Book Topic:

Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Painting

Edition Description:

Revised Edition

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Release Date:

2014-04-28

ISBN 13:

9781848221543

Weight:

2.3 lbs

Size:

11.30 x 9.50 x 0.60 inches

Pages:

176

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Mary Fedden (1915-2012) is one of Britain's most popular artists. The focus of this acclaimed book is the artist's creative process in various different media - oil, gouache, pencil and collage.

While Fedden is often considered almost exclusively a still-life painter, still life was far from being her only preoccupation, as this book shows. Fantasy and imagination always also played a strong part, as is particularly evident in her small gouaches. A quietly surreal, enigmatic streak runs through much of her work.

Fedden's collages are a witty and affectionate homage to the work of her husband, Julian Trevelyan. They lived, worked and travelled together from 1949 to 1988. The book re-emphasises her debt to him, but also her independence, even during their early life together when he stimulated her move into Modernism.

In an engaging text, which draws on numerous conversations with the artist during her final years, Christopher Andreae considers why Fedden has always had such a popular following, looks at the English quality of her work, and talks about the commercialisation of her art and her attitudes to the art market. Fedden is shown to be an original, serious and prolific artist, a draftsman of unusual sensitivity and prowess, and a colourist of power and subtlety.

Profusely illustrated with works from private and public collections, this is a book for Mary Fedden's existing devotees as well as newcomers to her work.

About the Author
Christopher Andreae wrote about art from the early 1960s onwards, in books and shorter pieces of journalism. He is the author of Joan Eardley (2013), Mary Newcomb (1996 and 2007), A Word or Two (a collection of essays published in 2004) and Winifred Nicholson (2009).

Mary Fedden: Enigmas and Variations

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