Prunella Clough: Regions Unmapped
- Artist: Prunella Clough
- Published: March 2012
- Publisher: Lund Humphries, London
- Edition: -
- Format: Hardback
- Height: 26cm
- Pages: 240
- Illustrations: Includes 110 colour and 30 b&w illustrations
£35.00
Prunella Clough: Regions Unmapped
As the 2007 Prunella Clough exhibition at Tate testified, Clough (1919-1999) was one of the best and most original artists to emerge in the second half of the twentieth century. This book celebrates this female artist's outstanding contribution to British art providing, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of Prunella Clough's entire career.
Situating the development of Clough's art within the trajectory of her life, Frances Spalding explores the key themes and inspirations that informed the artist's work. Frances Spalding's unique access to previously unpublished letters, a journal which Clough kept in the late 1940s and notebooks from the artist's visits around England, ensures that this highly readable artist monograph of Clough's life and work breaks new ground.
Important themes such as her interest in Surrealism, Neo-Romanticism and Abstract Expressionism, run alongside debates, such as the artist's position within the English art scene and her critical reception. Her relationship with her aunt, designer and architect Eileen Gray, is given due attention, as are other key alliances in her life.
Prunella Clough: Regions Unmapped will appeal to a wide spectrum of readers, from those with a general interest in the artist and the period to curators, collectors, dealers and academics.
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Authors Biography
Frances Spalding is an art historian, critic and biographer. She read art history at the University of Nottingham and began writing journalism and books while still a post-graduate. In the late 1970s and 1980s she wrote extensively on twentieth-century British art, at the same time developing an interest in biography. Her reputation was established with Roger Fry: Art and Life in 1980 and she went on to write lives of the artists Vanessa Bell, John Minton, Duncan Grant and Gwen Raverat, as well as a biography of the poet Stevie Smith. Her survey history, British Art since 1900, in the Thames & Hudson World of Art series has been much used in schools, colleges and universities, and in the mid-1990s she was commissioned by Tate to write a centenary history of this national institution. In 2000 she joined Newcastle University where she is now Professor of Art History. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art and in 2005 was made a Companion of the British Empire for Services to Literature.
