A memoir of the artist and of the author's friendship with him, part biography, part art criticism. Their friendship and this book cover the latter part of Guston's life, when his late work ... read more
Modern British artists in the inter-war period: Evelyn Dunbar, Douglas Percy Bliss, Charles Mahoney, Gilbert Spencer, Clare Leighton, Eric Ravilious, Tirzah Garwood et alia. A slim catalogue... read more
A very clever debut from a distinguished hand in the art world: a Cambridge don rather stuck in his ways is repelled by an outbreak of modern art in his quad. Wafted on a cloud of academic d... read more
Charts the influence of the Bauhaus in England and America in the 1930s, expanding on the school's influence on modernist art and architecture. Pairs well with Gavin Stamp's Interwar.
A very welcome re-issue. Not so much art history as a series of conversations and thoughts about the work of Paul Nash, David Jones, Joan Eardley, Ben Nicholson and others. Some illustration... read more
Kojeve's essay on the creation of beauty in his uncle's paintings: through abstraction rather than representation. This slim volume includes some letters between Kandinsky and his philosophe... read more
A re-issue of this delightful short memoir by the son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose who did indeed take a bite out of Pablo - who, unlike Mr Murdstone in David Copperfield, bit the boy s... read more