Thomas Hennell - The Land and the Mind (Kilburn Jessica)(Pevná vazba) - diskuze

When John Rothenstein, Director of the Tate Gallery, published the third volume of his Modern English Painters in 1984, he subtitled it "Hennell to Hockney." While David Hockney needs no introduction, Thomas Hennell (1903-1945) has somehow slipped off the radar and undoubtedly deserves to be more widely recognized today. In his lifetime, Hennell was highly regarded as an artist and author. His main theme was the English countryside. His distinctive beautifully colored watercolors and detailed drawings were made with a strong sense of vocation. He struggled with serious mental illness, was diagnosed as schizophrenic and spent 1932 to 1935 in the Maudsley mental hospital in London. Edward Bawden encouraged him to "center and compose" the experience of schizophrenia by writing about it, and Hennell's remarkable illustrated account, The Witness, was published in 1938. Eric
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