Dora Carrington, Mark Gertler, Paul Nash, Christopher Nevinson, and Stanley Spencer were five of the most important British artists of the 20th century. From diverse backgrounds, they all met at The Slade in London between 1908 and 1910, in what was later described at the school's 'last crisis of brilliance'.
'I Am Spain' focuses on the experiences of an interconnected group of individuals - some famous, others largely unkown - to tell the story of the Spanish Civil War.
Science, Religion and Archaeology in Eighteenth-Century England
The book delves into the antiquarian studies of Stukeley, who explored the ancient stone circles of Stonehenge and Avebury, uncovering their significant historical age. As a contemporary of Newton, his life reflects the Enlightenment era's struggle between scientific inquiry and religious belief, highlighting the tension and interplay between these two realms of thought. Through his research, Stukeley contributed to a deeper understanding of prehistoric monuments and their cultural significance.
Exploring humanity's enduring fascination with longevity, this engaging history traces the quest for perpetual youth from 1600 to the present. It reveals how scientists and philosophers in the West have long pursued this ideal, highlighting the evolution of thought and ambition surrounding the desire for extended life. The book delves into the cultural and scientific milestones that have shaped our understanding of aging and youthfulness over the centuries.
David Boyd Haycock's extensively illustrated biography of Lucy Kemp-Welch highlights her as a leading equestrian painter and a prominent female artist in the UK during the early 20th century. The book explores her impactful career, including her famous works and contributions during WWI, while providing a contemporary perspective on her life and artistry.
As a painter, illustrator and critic, Paul Nash (1889-1946) was at the forefront of British art in the first half of the twentieth century. Inspired by William Blake, Samuel Palmer and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, he produced some of the greatest paintings of the First and Second World Wars.
Augustus John: Drawn from Life seeks to restore this remarkable artist to his rightful place in the canon of British Art.
Following the sell-out 2014 publication Paul Nash: Watercolours 1910 - 1946 this revised and expanded edition has been published to coincide with an exhibition of Paul Nash's work in New York, May 2019.
Considered by John Singer Sargent to be the best British draughtsman since the Renaissance, Augustus John was the first of the British ' Post-Impressionists' . Such was his importance that Wyndham Lewis called the ten years up to 1914 ' the Augustan decade' . Virginia Woolf wrote in 1921 that ' The age of Augustus John was dawning' . Handsome, unconventional and full of brilliant promise and Bohemian spirit, John was the man almost every young British art student wanted to emulate. This book reveals why, telling his extraordinary story from his birth in south Wales in 1878 through to the end of his youth in the closing stages of the First World War. Interweaving his biography are the personalities who surrounded John, and the book looks at their influence on him, and his upon them. They include his fellow students at the Slade School of Art - his sister Gwen John and future wife Ida Nettleship, and his friends William Orpen, Ambrose McEvoy, Spencer Gore and Percy Wyndham Lewis. This book is a long overdue, new interpretation of this singular figure, who was both at the heart of the British artistic milieu, and yet set apart from its movements and manifestos.