Aleshina, Dina N. The British Abstraction. Paintings-Reliefs of Ben Nicholson

Title The British Abstraction. Paintings-Reliefs of Ben Nicholson
Author email din-don@list.ru
About author Aleshina, Dina N. — Ph.D. student, Repin St. Petersburg State Academy Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. 17 Universitetskaia embankment, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, 199034.
In the section Western Art of the 20th Century and Theory of Art
Year 2014 Volume 4 Pages 346–351
Type of article RAR Index UDK 7.038 Index BBK 85.14
Abstract

The article is devoted to the unique features of the British abstraction. A question of the kind of Ben Nicholson’s abstract works is investigated for the fi rst time ever in the context of the creative development of the painter and his methods of achievement of the utmost concreteness in the British pure abstraction.
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Reference Aleshina, Dina N. The British Abstraction. Paintings-Reliefs of Ben Nicholson. Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art: Collection of articles. Vol. 4. Eds: Svetlana V. Maltseva, Anna V. Zakharova. St. Petersburg, NP-Print Publ., 2014, pp. 346–351. ISSN 2312-2129.
Publication Article language russian
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