A biography of Dod Procter who, for a period in the 1920s, was perhaps the most famous artist in Britain.
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In A View to the Future Roland Adburgham traces the intriguing story of transformation – of a young man into a successful entrepreneur, of a young company into a major player in building design and construction, and of the application of a creative mind t
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Named after Jan van Eyck’s 15th-century painting The Arnolfini Portrait, Arnolfini, since its inception in 1961, has maintained its commitment to an eclectic international artistic programme. This book presents the history of Arnolfini and Bush House, an
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This book is about a body of painters who have generally been marginalised by British art historians – the Polish exiles from war and persecution who made their homes and careers in Britain before or after 1939. It takes ten of them, explores their origins, their often hazardous escape from occupied Europe, their reception and the development of their work.
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A compelling biography of a leading west-country painter which reveals the artists reverence for ancient architecture, whether high culture or vernacular, and his significant influence on the design of contemporary buildings Many illustrations of Organ
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Survey by noted architectural writer of 100 years of Bristol architecture, discussing over 100 modern buildings. This is the revised edition, the first having sold out within a year of publication.
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Published to mark the centenary of Evelyn Dunbar’s birth, this unique and authoritative biography celebrates for the first time the range of Evelyn Dunbar's achievement as mural painter and official war artist. Sumptuously illustrated, it is an essent
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Wide ranging survey of over 220 self-portraits by twentieth-century British artists, including Gwen John,
Stanley Spencer, Walter Sickert. The book has been widely, and favourably, reviewed in the national and art press, including a 4-page feature in th
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Oehlen’s work focuses on the process of painting itself rather than any subjective expressionism or formal representation. A sometime collaborator and contemporary of Martin Kippenberger, he has said ‘I want an art where you see how it’s made, not what t
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Mark Titchner’s works explore systems of belief – both secular and spiritual – often focusing on marginalized, discredited or forgotten ideologies and objects. Titchner’s works are direct but curiously ambiguous constructs that attempt to address the big
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