Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood by Katy Norris is a comprehensive exploration of the life and work of the English painter Christopher Wood, published by Lund Humphries in 2016. This edition features 176 pages and is presented in English, offering a fully illustrated account that includes over 150 images. The book provides extensive visual analysis of Wood’s paintings, set designs, and drawings created in both Britain and France, highlighting his unique artistic development across these regions.
Readers will find a detailed narrative that examines Wood’s influences and his faux-naïve style, as well as his interactions with the Parisian avant-garde and the simpler life he experienced in Cornwall, Cumbria, and Brittany. The text delves into the emotional complexities of Wood’s final years, reflecting the tensions between the diverse worlds he navigated. This authoritative work offers fresh insights into the artist’s contributions and the artistic landscape of his time.
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“The first fully illustrated account of the life and work of English painter Christopher Wood (1901-30), this authoritative work, which includes over 150 images, provides extensive visual analysis of individual paintings, set designs and drawings created by Wood in both Britain and France so bringing fresh perspective to his unique artistic development on both sides of the Channel. Wood’s short career drew on a multitude of influences, all of which contributed to the development of his faux-naïve style. His oscillation between diverse artistic reference points is borne out in Katy Norris’ fascinating narrative that analyses Wood’s engagement with the Parisian avant-garde on the one hand, and the attraction of the simpler life he encountered in Cornwall, Cumbria and Brittany on the other. The emotional turmoil of his final years underlines the tensions between the two worlds that Wood inhabited and which he was ultimately was unable to reconcile.”–Publisher description.
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