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Thomas Hennell - The Land and the Mind (Hardcover)
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Thomas Hennell - The Land and the Mind (Hardcover)
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Thomas Hennell (1903-45) said his aim was to 'surprise his subject'
- to capture the transient quality of the moment. In watercolour he
found his perfect medium, producing work which was, as his fellow
artist Edward Bawden said, 'fully expressive and technically
perfect'. During an idyllic childhood in rural Kent Hennell
discovered his love of the English countryside. He explored its
fields, farms and woods, and later, travelling on a rusty old
bicycle, developed an appreciation of England's traditions and
crafts. Much of his work records the countryside in a state of
change, imbuing his sense of loss with poetic intensity. In the
early 1930s, Hennell suffered a severe breakdown and later
described the three years he spent in mental hospitals in his
memoir The Witnesses (1938), an astonishing document in a period
when stigma still attached to mental illness. Hennell's remarkable
talent for friendship survived his years of mental turmoil. Jessica
Kilburn's new biography brings Hennell the man vividly to life
through extracts from his letters to friends and personal accounts
by people who knew him. As this richly illustrated book shows, the
artist's final years were exceptionally productive. In 1943 Hennell
was appointed an official war artist, yielding commissions in
Iceland and northern Europe. After the pastoral evocations of
inter-war England, his portrayal of war's brutality is shocking:
devastated French towns, emaciated prisoners of war. At the war's
end, Hennell received a final posting to the Far East. Tragically,
he was caught up in the struggle for independence in Java and in
late October 1945 disappeared in circumstances which Jessica
Kilburn recreates more fully than in any previous account. Thomas
Hennell was born into a remarkable generation of English artists
that included Eric Ravilious, John Piper, Graham Sutherland and
Barbara Hepworth. His peers regarded him as one of their finest
creative talents; Jessica Kilburn's sensitive and deeply researched
new biography restores this unjustly neglected artist to his
rightful place in the history of twentieth-century English art.
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