题 目：Alfred Wallis Sketchbooks / 阿尔弗雷德·沃利斯素描本

作 者：Andrew Wilson

出 版：Tate，2023

装 帧：精装，80页

语 种：英语

尺 寸：26*22 cm

这本精装书汇集了阿尔弗雷德·沃利斯 （Alfred Wallis） 用图画填充的三本素描本的内容。在策展人安德鲁·威尔逊 （Andrew Wilson） 的介绍下，它对沃利斯的记忆艺术有了非凡的见解。

“不，我不认为一个好的 Wallis 是代表性的，它只是真实的。”

这些速写本背后都有一个非凡的故事。它们创建于 1942 年，即阿尔弗雷德·沃利斯 （Alfred Wallis） 的最后一年，当时他住在彭赞斯 （Penzance） 的贫民窟。它们为他对英国现代艺术发展的贡献提供了新的视角。

请注意，由于这本书忠实地复制了艺术家的素描本内容，因此作品以 Wallis 最初绘制的方向展示。这意味着一些艺术品看起来是 “颠倒的”，这是故意的，而不是印刷错误。

阿尔弗雷德·沃利斯 （Alfred Wallis） 是一名康沃尔水手和废金属经销商，自学成才，在 1925 年左右，也就是三年前妻子去世后，他开始绘画。在 1920 年代后期，他对艺术家 Winifred 和 Ben Nicholson 以及 Christopher Wood 产生了强大的影响，他简单而直接的风格传达了一种经验的真相，这也成为圣艾夫斯作为一个重视他表达真实性的艺术社区的首要特征的拟人化。他的艺术遗产继续激励着今天的艺术家。

Andrew Wilson 博士是一位评论家、历史学家和策展人。他曾担任泰特不列颠美术馆现当代艺术和档案馆高级策展人（2006-21 年），在此之前是艺术月刊的副主编（1998-2006 年）。

This hardback book brings together the contents of three sketchbooks that Alfred Wallis filled with drawings. With an introduction by curator Andrew Wilson, it offers a remarkable insight into Wallis’s art of memory made tangible.

'No, I don’t think a good Wallis is representational, it is simply REAL.’ - Ben Nicholson.

These sketchbooks have an extraordinary story behind them. They were created in 1942, Alfred Wallis’s final year, when he lived in the Penzance poorhouse. They shine new light on his contribution to the development of modern art in Britain.

Please note that as this book is a faithful reproduction of the artist's sketchbook contents, the artworks are displayed in the orientations that Wallis originally drew them in. This means that some artworks appear to be 'upside down', this is deliberate and not a printing error.

A Cornish mariner and scrap metal dealer, Alfred Wallis was self-taught, having started to paint around 1925, following the death of his wife three years earlier. A potent influence in the late 1920s for artists Winifred and Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood, his simple and direct style communicated a truth of experience that also came to personify the overriding character of St Ives as an art community that valued his authenticity of expression. The legacy of his art continues to inspire artists today.

Dr. Andrew Wilson is a critic, historian and curator. He was previously senior curator of Modern and Contemporary British art, and Archives at Tate Britain (2006-21) and before that deputy editor at Art Monthly (1998-2006).