Ben Nicholson's work reflects the concerns of a generation educated and influenced by Daniel Libeskind and John Hejduk but establishes a highly individual search for rigor, precision, and craftsmanship in architecture. Here he analyzes the structure and form of everyday objects such as appliances and bread tags to construct the theoretical and physical framework for an Appliance House, a shelter from Sub-Urban life, a receptacle for all the forgotten objects of society. This book brings together numerous sketches, pencil drawings, color collages, and models that provide a detailed account of this unique fouryear project. Ben Nicholson completed Appliance House as a Fellow of the Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism.

Appliance House (Chicago Institute of Architecture and Urbanism)

Arts & Photography

Nicholson, Ben

Architecture

Mit Pr

Ben Nicholson: Fifty Years of His Art

Drawing

Univ of Washington Pr

324 page hardcover pub. by Thames&amp;Hudson LTD 1969/measures 13.2x11.7x1.7 inches

Drawings, paintings and reliefs 1911-1968

Benteli

Ben Nicholson: Drawings and Painted Reliefs

Though it gives an account of his entire career, this book focuses on the works of Ben Nicholson's artistic maturity - the drawings and painted reliefs made between 1950 and 1975. Together with the white reliefs of 1934-9, these are the works by which he himself wished to be judged. Despite this fact, neither the drawings nor late reliefs have received the attention they deserve. The drawings have mistakenly been viewed as somehow subsidiary to the paintings and reliefs, when in fact their qualities of wit, poetry, spontaneity and virtuosity place them among Nicolson's finest and most personal achievements, while the late reliefs are shown to be complementary expressions of the interiorized vision that underlies all Nicholson's work. As his imagination ranges from the particular to the universal, the two-dimensional image explores one facet of reality, the three-dimensional object another. The 120 illustrations include a large number of works rarely or never reproduced before, and much of the extensive quotation from Nicholson's own writing has not previously been published. The author's fresh approach and sympathetic insight make us look more deeply and with wider appreciation at the work of an outstanding artist.

Khoroche, Peter

History & Criticism

Lund Humphries Pub Ltd

A tribute to Ben Nicholson: [catalogue of an exhibition held] 3 July-10 August 1974 [at the] Crane Kalman Gallery ... London

Crane Kalman Gallery

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