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A friend and pupil of Edward Bawden, student and teacher at Goldsmiths and a successful book illustrator, Swanwick was a visionary 20th century British artist in the tradition of William Blake and Samuel Palmer. Including a chronology and catalogue record documentary, this book examines his unique, spiritual and sometimes eccentric work and life.
This monograph concentrates on Coker's landscape works, with the aim of raising them from the obscurity into which they have fallen compared with his better documented work.
Short biography & critical assessment of Roger Hilton's work, in which the author focusses on the rich complexity & cultural significance of the artist's later work in gouache.
New edition with introductory essay by David Wilkinson, of the classic sDEC 2006dy of the St Ives art colony in the 1950s.
The author contrasts primitive & naive painting through the life & work of 2 of Cornwall's distinctive artists. The survey concludes with brief profiles of a dozen other artists whose individual visions have enriched the life of this celebrated artist's c
Concerns works by artists active during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the transalpine lands of northern Europe, which eventually became the modern nations of Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. This book also includes a history of the collecting of early Northern paintings in the Midwest.
This book with more than 120 colour illustrations was published to accompany a major retrospective exhibition.Includes essays on the artists techniques & an interview given by the artist's mother in 1973.
Explores the pictorial world of Degass whose formal innovations, commitment to realism and exploration of both the light and dark sides of contemporary society foreshadowed the art of the 20th century.
Robert Ewing's biography of Douglas Johnson describes the experiences and influences which shaped him as an artist and includes a selection of Johnson's writings on his own life and work.
Essay Series 3 -- The story of a young painter of over 2000 paintings who died of AIDS before he could taste recognition.
With its dramatic landscape & rugged beauty, Alberta's Bow Valley region has inspired generations of artists. This title brings together a collection of works by local & visiting artists from 1845 to 2000 that depict the region from a range of viewpoints & in a captivating variety of styles & moods.
This is the first title in a series of guides, which will present a selection of masterpieces from world-renowned museums. The 50 works presented here are illustrated with full-page photographs and a wealth of details, and aspects of the building itself are illustrated. The text is written in an accessible manner and discusses