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A blog dedicated to Modern British Art from Lund Humphries, the leading publisher of books on the subject.

Introducing The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect

Posted on 24 January 2018

Thomas Hardy is one of England’s greatest novelists and poets, known for works such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd and whose part-real, part-imaginary realm of...

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Introducing Designing for Heritage: Contemporary Visitor Centres

Posted on 08 December 2017

With tourists expecting higher levels of service, information and retail opportunities, visitor centres have become a vital component in providing access to heritage sites, historic buildings, landscapes of natural beauty...

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Lois Dodd: Exhibition and Book Signing

Posted on 29 November 2017

The Lois Dodd exhibition opens at the Alexandre Gallery in New York tomorrow until 20 January 2018. The exhibition celebrates the publication of our Lois Dodd monograph by Faye Hirsch...

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Preview: Dark Side of the Boom

Posted on 21 November 2017

At the end of the year we'll be publishing Georgina Adam's second book with us, Dark Side of the Boom: The Excesses of the Art Market in the 21st Century. The...

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Introducing Geoffrey Clarke Sculptor

Posted on 16 November 2017

This month we'll be publishing Geoffrey Clarke Sculptor: A Catalogue Raisonne, the first complete catalogue of the sculpture of Geoffrey Clarke, a major figure in post-war British sculpture. The book...

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Introducing: Seth Stein Architects

Posted on 11 November 2017

We have published a book on the award winning architecture practice Seth Stein. The book features projects from South Africa, Finland, the Turks & Caicos Island, Canada, Australia and the UK,...

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Heath Robinson's Commercial Art

Posted on 10 November 2017

Heath Robinson (1872–1944) is fondly regarded for his mischievous, gently comic illustrations that have been enjoyed for generations. Born in Finsbury Park, North London, he trained at Islington School of...

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Thomas Nozkowski: First in Contemporary Painters Series

Posted on 09 November 2017

In early September we published the first book in our Contemporary Painters Series, Thomas Nozkowski by John Yau. It is the first full-scale book on Nozkowski's fascinating career and offers a detailed account...

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Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures

Posted on 08 November 2017

In early September, we published Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures, the first book to assemble Fragonard's 'fantasy figures' alongside his original sketches. It is a unique project which uses the multiple...

Tags: Art, art book, Art Book Publishers, Art Book Publishing, Exhibitions, Fantasy Figures, Fragonard, Lund Humphries,

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Introducing Lois Dodd

Posted on 29 October 2017

We are very pleased to announce the publication of the second book in our 'Contemporary Painters' series, Lois Dodd. The book, which was released earlier this month, features paintings by...

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An Evening with Neave Brown

Posted on 25 October 2017

This Friday, award-winning architect Neave Brown will be joined by the author of Cook's Camden: The Making of Modern Housing Mark Swenarton to discuss Neave's work. The event will include appearances...

Tags: Architecture, Architecture Foundation, Cook's Camden, Event, Lund Humphries, Neave Brown,

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Cook's Camden: The Making of Modern Housing

Posted on 05 October 2017

We're delighted to present the new book Cook’s Camden: The Making of Modern Housing, by Mark Swenarton, now available from our website. The book is particularly topical moment as the central protagonist in...

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Introducing the new Lund Humphries identity

Posted on 31 July 2017

Lund Humphries is celebrating two years as an independent publisher following our departure from the Ashgate Publishing Group in Summer 2015. It has been an exciting time of change and...

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Social Housing in Vienna & London: Two Traditions

Posted on 22 June 2017

On 14 June 2017, Lund Humphries hosted a discussion on the comparative social housing traditions of London and Vienna, at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London as part of the London Festival of...

Tags: Liane Lefaivre, London housing, Mark Swenarton, Peter Barber, Social Housing, Viennese architecture,

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Howard Hodgkin: Painting India

Posted on 05 June 2017

For popular British artist Howard Hodgkin (1932–2017), India was a source of inspiration from his first visit to the country in 1964. The first of Hodgkin’s paintings inspired by India, Indian Subject...

Tags: British Art, Howard Hodgkin, Painting India,

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Rebel Modernists: Viennese Architecture since Otto Wagner

Posted on 07 May 2017

Set within the fascinating cultural and political world of Vienna from the fin-de-siècle to the present day, Rebel Modernists: Viennese Architecture since Otto Wagner by Liane Lefaivre provides an insightful analysis of the...

Tags: modernist architecture, Viennese architecture, Viennese art,

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‘Designing the V&A’: some reflections by the author

Posted on 04 May 2017

Godfrey Sykes and Francis Fowke, Design for the decoration of the South Kensington Museum, c.1865, © Victoria and Albert Museum, 2017 It may seem strange that the largest object in the...

Tags: art, Arts and crafts, Design, Edward Burne-Jones, Edwardian history, interior design, Lord Leighton, Victorian history, William Morris,

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America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting

Posted on 04 May 2017

When Joseph Bonaparte, elder brother of Napoleon I, fled to America in 1815, he packed his collection of 18th-century French painting. In an effort to spread his native country’s culture...

Tags: eighteenth-century french art, french art, neoclassical, rococo,

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Frank Lloyd Wright 150th anniversary

Posted on 27 April 2017

Frank Lloyd Wright’s 150th anniversary celebrated in two publications from Lund Humphries Frank Lloyd Wright on steps outside draughting studio, Taliesin West, 1942. Photo by Robert Carroll May. Courtesy of...

Tags: Falling water, Frank Lloyd Wright, organic architecture, Taliesin,

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The Public and Private Lives of Keith Vaughan

Posted on 06 April 2017

In light of the recently opened Tate exhibition Queer British Art 1861–1967, author Gerard Hastings discusses the experiences of gay artist Keith Vaughan in a period before the decriminalisation of homosexuality in England. Keith Vaughan, Nude...

Tags: british abstraction John Craxton, John Minton, Keith Vaughan, Keith Vaughan Journals, Modern British Art, Modern British Prints, queer arts, Tate, Tate Britain,

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On editing Paul Nash’s Outline

Posted on 17 March 2017

In this blog post David Boyd Haycock, editor of Paul Nash: Outline, An Autobiography shares his experience of researching the book. When Lucy Myers invited me to edit a new...

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Design for the Corporate World

Posted on 15 March 2017

Architectural, industrial, and graphic design in the United States from the 1950s through to the 1970s – generally known as mid-century modern – is now perceived as a golden era,...

Tags: Charles and Ray Eames, corporate design, Design, design classics, Dieter Rams, Eero Saarinen, Eliot Noyes, graphic design, Ivan Chermayeff, logo design, logos, Marcello Nizzoli, mid-century modern, Paul Rand, product design,

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Eduardo Paolozzi Image Gallery

Posted on 02 February 2017

Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) was a unique cultural figure. His varied yet instantly recognisable work chronicles the significant changes in British art from the austere 1950s to the post-post-modern late 1990s....

Tags: British Art, Eduardo Paolozzi, Independent Group, Judith Collins, Whitechapel,

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Johnston & Gill: Very British Types

Posted on 10 November 2016

We’re delighted to present the latest book by transport design historian Mark Ovenden: Johnston and Gill: Very British Types, available now (HB, £40), coincides with the centenary of Johnston and the 90th anniversary...

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Maggi Hambling: Touch

Posted on 13 July 2016

In September 2016 Lund Humphries publishes the first book to focus on the drawings and prints of one of Britain’s foremost figurative artists. Maggi Hambling: Touch, by Jennifer Ramkalawon accompanies an exhibition of...

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Christopher Wood: Sophisticated Primitive

Posted on 11 July 2016

‘A rhythmic energy pulses through these pictures.’ Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times Christopher Wood: Sophisticated Primitive has opened at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester. This major summer exhibition is the first in 35 years...

Tags: 20th Century Painting, Christopher Wood, Modern British Art,

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Edward Ardizzone: Artist and Illustrator

Posted on 11 July 2016

We’re delighted to be publishing the first book to provide a fully illustrated survey of the work of Edward Ardizzone, considered one of the greatest illustrators of his generation, in September 2016....

Tags: Alan Powers, Edward Ardizzone, House of Illustration, Illustration,

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Hubert Robert: A Visionary Painter

Posted on 09 May 2016

Hubert Robert (1733-1808) is celebrated with a landmark publication and two major monographic exhibitions of his work, at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington...

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A Good Moment for Sculpture Books

Posted on 07 March 2016

Lund Humphries author Valerie Holman discusses The Sculpture of Francis Derwent Wood, the final volume in the long-running British Sculptors and Sculpture Series, and considers the role of the artist’s monograph amongst...

Tags: Barbara Hepworth, British Sculptors, British Sculpture, Eduardo Paolozzi, Elisabeth Frink, F.E. McWilliam, Francis Derwent Wood, Henry Moore, Henry Moore Foundation, Kenneth Armitage, Lisson Gallery, Modern British Art, Pangolin, Public Art, Reg Butler, William Turnbull,

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The St Ives Artists: New Edition

Posted on 07 March 2016

The best-selling account of the artists and activities that made the small coastal town of St Ives a post-war hub of international modernism will be republished by Lund Humphries in a...

Tags: 20th Century Art, Alfred Wallis, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Bernard Leach, Christopher Wood, Michael Bird, Modern British Art, Naum Gabo, Patrick Heron, Peter Lanyon, Roger Hilton, St Ives, St Ives Artists, Winifred Nicholson,

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Representing Slavery: Art, Artefacts and Archives in the Collections of the National Maritime Museum

Posted on 12 February 2016

Representing Slavery: Art, Artefacts and Archives in the Collections of the National Maritime Museum, edited by Douglas Hamilton and Robert J. Blyth, draws on the extensive collections of the National...

Tags: Black History, Black History Month, National Maritime Museum, Slavery,

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Edward Bawden's Scrapbooks - a sneak peek

Posted on 08 February 2016

Painter and illustrator Edward Bawden’s five scrapbooks, assembled over a period of more than 55 years, and housed at The Fry Art Gallery, contain everything from stamps, photographs, cigarette cards,...

Tags: Edward Bawden, Fry Art Gallery, illustration, modern art, Modern British Art, scrapbooks,

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John Craxton: 'A Poetic Eye'

Posted on 01 February 2016

Author and curator Ian Collins introduces the work of John Craxton, on display at The Salisbury Museum, 30 January - 7 May 2016. John Craxton (1922-2009) was one of the most...

Tags: John Craxton, modern art, Modern British Art,

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David Jones's illustrations for The Town Child's Alphabet

Posted on 01 February 2016

We're delighted to share an extract from the publication: The Art of David Jones: Vision and Memory by Ariane Bankes and Paul Hills, published October 2015. Soldiers returning home after...

Tags: David Jones, Modern British Art,

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Winner announced for the The Drawings of Barbara Hepworth competition

Posted on 23 November 2015

Congratulations to Caroline Greene, who has won a copy of the book The Drawings of Barbara Hepworth, by Alan Wilkinson (£40 hardback). To celebrate the Big Draw this October 2015, we...

Tags: Barbara Hepworth, Big Draw 2015, drawing, human form, life drawing, modern art, Modern British Art, St Ives, Tate Britain,

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Barbara Hepworth Drawing Competition

Posted on 21 October 2015

We are delighted to have partnered with the NEAC Drawing School to offer you a drawing competition inspired by the work of Barbara Hepworth. The prize will be a copy of the newly published book: The Drawings of Barbara Hepworth by Alan Wilkinson, published by Lund Humphries. £40 Hardback. Info: Create an original drawing inspired […]

Tags: Barbara Hepworth, Big Draw 2015, Drawing, Human Figure, Modern British Artists, Spotlight on Collections, St Ives,

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Modern Art, After Dark

Posted on 07 October 2015

Your head is coated by a thick soup of black and green paint. A roughly smeared handprint of grey-blue smoke tarnishes your jaw while sharp flecks of orange, pale yellow and white sting your cheeks and eyes. A wave of red threatens to permeate the scene as you look up, enraged, at the dandified artist […]

Tags: Ben Nicholson, British Modernism, Carel Weight, Craigie Aitchison, Graham Sutherland, Guest Post, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, John Craxton, John Piper, John Ruskin, Julian Bell, Mary Fedden, Modern British Art, Modernism, Nocturnal, Nocturne, Nocturne in Black and Gold, painting, Patrick Heron, Paul Nash, Peter Lanyon, Ruskin, Tom Hammick, Walter Sickert, Whistler,

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Symposium: ART & COLLABORATION

Posted on 28 September 2015

Sonia Boyce | Joy Gregory | Jacob Jari Samson Kambalu | Peterson Kamwathi | Atta Kwami Sunday 11th October 2015 11am – 6.30pm Djam lecture Theatre, SOAS, University of London Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG Free This one-day symposium brings together six leading artists in conversation about the role of collaboration in their […]

Tags: African Art, Atta Kwami, Collaboration, Contemporary African Art, Jacob Jari, Joy Gregory, Making Art in Africa, Other, Peterson Kamwathi, Polly Savage, Samson Kambalu, Sonia Boyce,

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Destination St Ives

Posted on 28 July 2015

Michael Bird discusses the unique position of the artists’ colony of St Ives within the history of modernist visual art in Britain. To coincide with several major exhibitions of St Ives artists’ work this summer Lund Humphries is offering special discounts on a wide range of publications on artists linked to this important location. For […]

Tags: Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Breon O'Casey, British Modernism, Bryan Wynter, Guest Post, Margaret Mellis, Michael Bird, Modern British Art, Modern British Prints, Modernism, Modernist Painting, Naum Gabo, painting, Patrick Heron, Pont Aven, Sandra Blow, St Ives, Summer of St Ives, Tate St Ives, Terry Frost, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, World War II, Worpswede,

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Independent Bookshop Week: Nominate your favourite UK art bookshop and win a signed book!

Posted on 23 June 2015

Once upon a time, London’s Charing Cross Road was a haven of specialist art bookshops. Famously there was Zwemmer’s, celebrated from the 1930s as one of the world’s leading art bookshops and a meeting-point for a fascinating cross-section of the art world. Zwemmer’s spawned several branches nearby before closing in the early years of the new millennium. And then there was Shipley, a much-loved […]

Tags: Art, art book, art bookshops, Charing Cross Road, Competition, Independent Bookshop Week, Shipley, Zwemmer's,

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Hans Hofmann: Cataloguing the Abstract

Posted on 09 June 2015

To coincide with a new exhibition of the artist’s works at Crane Kalman Gallery in London this June, Juliana D. Kreinik, contributing editor for the Hans Hofmann Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, recalls enlightening discoveries of vital information in Hofmann’s handwriten ledgers and the great effort and greater reward of a monumental research publication. Catalogue raisonné […]

Tags: Abstract Expressionism, action painting, catalogue raisonne, Charles and Ray Eames, Crane Kalman, drip painting, Guest Post, Hans Hofmann, Hans Hofmann Trust, Jackson Pollock, ledgers, Modernism, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, research publication,

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Art 15 Competition: Win a signed copy of Big Bucks

Posted on 20 May 2015

To celebrate Georgina Adam’s talk ’10 Things You Didn’t Know About…The Art Market Today’ at the Art15 Fair this Thursday, we have two signed copies of her acclaimed book Big Bucks: The Explosion of the Art Market in the 21st Century to give away. Email competition@lundhumphries.com to sign up for our newsletter and enter, with […]

Tags: Art 15, Art Fair, Art Market, Big Bucks, Competition, Georgina Adam, Signed Book,

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Ravilious in Print

Posted on 08 May 2015

Alan Powers, author of Eric Ravilious: Artist and Designer, discusses the current display of the artist’s works at Dulwich Picture Gallery and the challenges of accurately reproducing his unique watercolours in print. It would have been convenient if Dulwich Picture Gallery had put on their current exhibition of Eric Ravilious watercolours two years ago. In […]

Tags: Aldeburgh, British art, British Modernism, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Eric Ravilious, Guest Post, Imperial War Museum, IWM, James Russell, Modern British Art, Modern British Prints, Photoshop, printmaking, Ravilious, Reproduction, War Artist, Watercolour,

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Sybil Andrews in Bury St Edmunds

Posted on 24 April 2015

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Hana Leaper discusses Linocut artist Sybil Andrews’ childhood in Bury St Edmunds and the lasting impact of this rural setting in her vibrant modernist prints. Whilst preparing the catalogue essay for my forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Sybil Andrews’ colour linocuts, I was struck by both the prevalence of images from her childhood hometown, Bury St […]

Tags: British Modernism, Bury St Edmunds, Claude Flight, Cyril Power, Grosvenor School, Guest Post, Linocut, Linoprint, London Original Print Fair, Modern British Art, Modern British Prints, Modernism, Osborne Samuel, printmaking, rural, Sybil Andrews,

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Lund Humphries Landmarks – Looking Back, Looking Forward

Posted on 19 December 2014

Valerie Holman rounds off a year of Lund Humphries anniversary celebrations with a selection of the company’s highlights and successes of the past 75 years. To celebrate 75 years of art publishing, every month this year a Lund Humphries author has focused on a single ‘landmark’ publication from the firm’s long list, bringing to light the stories behind […]

Tags: Barbara Hepworth, Barbara Rae, Ben Nicholson, Bernard Leach, Bill Woodrow, ceramics, Craigie Aitchison, Eduardo Paolozzi, Elisabeth Frink, Gillian Ayres, Hans Hofmann, Henry Moore, Ivon Hitchens, Kasmir Malevich, Limited Editions, Lund Humphries Landmarks, Margaret Mellis, Modern British Art, Modern British Sculpture, Modernism, Naum Gabo, Paul Nash, Peter Gregory, Post-War, Prunella Clough, Rose Hilton, Sandra Blow, sculpture, Sheila Fell, Sheila Girling, Tom Hammick, Valerie Holman, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, William Scott,

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British Art Now and Then: Celebrating 75 Years of Art-book Publishing

Posted on 04 December 2014

Back in the 1940s, when Britain still had an Empire and Peter Gregory was developing a fledgling art-publishing list at Lund Humphries, contemporary British art was relatively straightforward to define, even if Britishness and avant-garde art sometimes seemed awkward bedfellows. At the Lund Humphries 75th anniversary talk at the ICA on 26th November 2014, the […]

Tags: Art, art book, Art Book Publishers, Art Book Publishing, British art, British Council, Contemporary British Art, Emma Dexter, ICA, Iwona Blazwick, Lund Humphries, Lund Humphries 75th Anniversary, Modern British Art, Nathan Coley, Peter Gregory, Tim Marlow, Whitechapel Gallery, Yinka Shonibare MBE,

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Lund Humphries Landmarks – British Sculptors and Sculpture series (1991 – )

Posted on 11 November 2014

Penelope Curtis discusses the British Sculptors and Sculpture series, a series of books jointly published by Lund Humphries and the Henry Moore Foundation, beginning in 1991 that sought to reappraise the works of a range of underappreciated British artists. The Henry Moore Foundation had an historic association with Lund Humphries, given that it was Moore’s publisher of […]

Tags: Austin Wright, Charles Sargeant Jagger, Charles Wheeler, Eric Kennington, Frank Dobson, George Fullard, Gertrude Hermes, Henry Moore, Henry Moore Foundation, Hubert Dalwood, Kenneth Armitage, Leon Underwood, Lund Humphries Landmarks, Maurice Lambert, Michael Sandle, Modern British Art, Modern British Sculpture, Modernism, Penelope Curtis, Philip King, Robert Adams, sculpture, Stephen Cox, Subject/Object, Tate, William Turnbull,

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Lund Humphries Landmarks – The Last Romantics: The Romantic tradition in British art: Burne-Jones to Stanley Spencer, edited by John Christian (1989)

Posted on 22 October 2014

John Hoole cherishes Lund Humphries’ 1989 publication The Last Romantics for its revelation of under explored ties between Pre-Raphaelite and Modern art, and Victorian and 20th-century culture. Twenty five years ago, Lund Humphries published The Last Romantics: The Romantic tradition in British art: Burne-Jones to Stanley Spencer, a catalogue to accompany an exhibition at Barbican Art Gallery. […]

Tags: A Paradise Lost: The Neo-Romantic Imagination in Britain, Alfred Gilbert, Aubrey Beardsley, Augustus John, Barbican, British art, David Mellor, Edward Burne-Jones, Herbert James Draper, John Hoole, Lund Humphries Landmarks, Modern British Art, Neo-Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelite, Romantic, Stanley Spencer,

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Lund Humphries Landmarks – Ivon Hitchens, edited by Alan Bowness with an essay by T. G. Rosenthal (1973)

Posted on 26 September 2014

Peter Khoroche discusses Lund Humphries’ 1973 book on Ivon Hitchens as the ‘benchmark’ for all future writing on the artist It seems astonishing that until 1973 the only monograph on Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979) was the one by Patrick Heron, published in the Penguin Modern Painters series in 1955. His essay, illustrated by 32 plates (only half […]

Tags: Alan Bowness, British Modernism, Ivon Hitchens, landscape painting, Lund Humphries Landmarks, Modern British Art, Modernism, Patrick Heron, Peter Khoroche, T.G. Rosenthal,

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Promotion through print: The printed works of C.R.W. Nevinson

Posted on 24 September 2014

To coincide with of the publication of Jonathan Black’s new book and a display of printed works at Osborne Samuel, David Boyd Haycock discusses C.R.W. Nevinson’s single-minded pursuit of artistic renown and how his printed works in particular were a vital promotional tool. It has long been my impression that the thing C.R.W. Nevinson wanted most […]

Tags: Augustus John, BLAST, C R W Nevinson The Complete Prints, C. R. W. Nevinson, Centenary, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, David Boyd Haycock, Etching, Fame, Futurism, Guest Post, Jonathan Black, Lithography, Lund Humphries, Marinetti, Mezzotint, Modern British Art, Modern British Prints, Nevinson, Osborne Samuel, Paul Nash, Severini, Vorticism, War Artist, WW1, Wyndham Lewis,

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