Architect Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo and his 18-year-old assistant Herbert Percy Horne answered Ruskin’s call for the regeneration of art and society. This is a handsome book about their work and those around them.
Arts and Crafts Pioneers: The Hobby Horse Men and their Century Guild
£35.00
Edition:Hardback978184822451328/01/2021From a Bookshelf nearby
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After a lapse of more than a decade, a reissue of Cooper's marvelous biography of the father of British studio pottery.
Bernard Leach – Life and Work
Paperback £25.00 -
A fascinating, scholarly monograph rather than a picture book, but well illustrated; draws on pre-Islamic sources and the great Persian poets. Explores the role and symbolism of gardens in... read more
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Craske's revisionist account of the 'painter of light' casts him in a rather more crepuscular emotional gloaming. Fascinating and deeply researched; illustrated of course.
Joseph Wright of Derby – Painter of Darkness
Hardback £45.00 -
A stunning collaboration between the Tretyakov State Gallery in Moscow, the Frieder Burda Museum in Baden-Baden and the Museum Barberini in Potsdam. Includes works from the 1880s to the 1920... read more