Dr Jennifer Johnson is a research fellow in History of Art at the University of Oxford. She has also held departmental lectureships in both History of Art and English Literature at Oxford. Her first book, Georges Rouault and Material Imagining was published by Bloomsbury in 2020 and represents her work on the ways in which matter and materiality inform meaning and process in modernism. Her new book, on women working in abstraction in Britain during the Cold War, will be published in 2025.
Jennifer Johnson
Contributions
Realism, Alienation, and Affective Distance in the Work of Prunella Clough
There is no gentle way into the later twentieth-century work of the painter Prunella Clough. It is, as this paper will argue, a difficult kind of realism, embedded in an obdurate poetry of form.