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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Vicken Parsons
  name:
    name part: Parsons, Vicken
    role:
      role term: artist,
    role:
      role term: interviewee.
  name:
    name part: Nairne, Andrew
    role:
      role term: writer of foreword.
  name:
    name part: Mullins, Charlotte
    role:
      role term: writer of introduction.
  name:
    name part: Archer, Michael
    name part: 1954-
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Batchelor, David
    name part: 1955-
    role:
      role term: interviewer.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: regular print
    extent: 294 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 cm
  abstract: This beautiful book is a demonstration of painting's power to evoke emotion and sensation even when on the smallest of scales. British artist Vicken Parsons (b.1957) makes small, intimate paintings on wood panel using thin layers of oil paint. Her subjects are usually partial views of interior spaces or landscapes, some remembered and others imagined. Details of rooms such as corners or doorways or glimpses of fleeting clouds conjure up worlds that are expansive yet claustrophic. Her paintings are quiet and meditative in mood, but also richly evocative, drawing in the viewer through their expressive brushwork, instinctive interplay of colour and light, and unnerving tension between surface and depth. Parsons' work has beguiled and inspired writers from the fields of art, psychoanalysis, and literature to attempt to interpret it, to distill it, for more than twenty years. Their responses to her 'visual poems' are gathered here for the first time, in the artist's only retrospective monograph. All of her most celebrated paintings are reproduced, alongside some of her drawings, until now never shown, and sculptural works - or 'painted objects' as she calls them - that see the artist extend her pictorial investigation of space, reflection, and illusion into three-dimensional form. Studio photographs show some of the work in progress.
  note: foreword by Andrew Nairne ; introduction by Charlotte Mullins ; texts by Michael Archer [and 7 others] ; and a conversation with David Batchelor.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Parsons, Vicken
  subject:
    topic: Painting, British
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Painting, British
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Sculpture, British
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Sculpture, British
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Women artists
    geographic: Great Britain
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Women artists
    geographic: Great Britain
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Parsons, Vicken
      name part: 1957-
  classification: ND497.P345 A4 2024
  classification: 759.2
  identifier: 9781908970596
  identifier: 1908970596
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 231026
    record change date: 20250318214338.8
    record identifier: in00005530853
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng