Modern British Artists

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

Alan Davie, Lund Humphries and the Yorkshire Connection

Posted on 26 November 2019

In 1967 Alan Bowness, future Director of the Tate, wrote the first monograph on Alan Davie and described him as being ‘among one of the major figures in the art...

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Library of Light: In Conversation with Jo Joelson

Posted on 11 July 2019

To celebrate the publication of Library of Light, written and compiled by Jo Joelson, Alexander Harris has conducted an in-depth interview with the artist, writer and interviewer about some of the ideas that informed the writing of her fascinating book.

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Amy Sillman

Posted on 20 May 2019

Dub Stamp 5a, Amy Sillman, 2018, ink, gouache, silkscreen To celebrate the publication of Valerie Smith’s new book Amy Sillman, we have decided to share an extract from the...

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Ben Nicholson: Writings and Ideas

Posted on 11 April 2019

Two Fishes, Ben Nicholson, 1932, from Ben Nicholson: Writings and Ideas To celebrate the publication of Lee Beard's new book Ben Nicholson: Writings and Ideas, we've decided to share...

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Verne Dawson

Posted on 01 March 2019

The allusive paintings of American artist Verne Dawson (b.1961) suggest an artist fascinated with storytelling. Dawson's idiosyncratic paintings defy contemporary art-world trends and eschew categorisation, revealing an artist attuned to...

Tags: Art, art book, Art Book Publishers, Art Book Publishing, Contemporary Painters series, John Hutchinson, landscape, Lund Humphries, painting, Verne Dawson,

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Neo Rauch

Posted on 28 February 2019

Born in 1960, acclaimed German painter Neo Rauch blends the iconography of Socialist Realism with the stylistic mannerisms of the Baroque and Romantic past. Influenced by his art-school training in...

Tags: Art, Art Book Publishers, Art Book Publishing, Baroque, Contemporary Painters series, David Zwirner, Hong Kong, Leipzig School, Lund Humphries, Michael Glover, Neo Rauch, Romanticism, Socialist Realism,

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Gino Valle

Posted on 01 November 2018

Born in Udine, Italy in 1923, Gino Valle was one of the most original and creative figures to emerge in post-war European architecture. He studied at the IUAV in Venice before...

Tags: architect, Architecture, architecture book, Gino Valle, Italian architecture, Lund Humphries,

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Rabih Hage: Quiet Architecture

Posted on 03 October 2018

We're delighted to have published a monograph on the award winning architect and interior designer Rabih Hage. Ranging from London townhouses to escapist farmhouses, this book provides a comprehensive survey...

Tags: Design, Dominic Bradbury, interior design, Rabih Hage,

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Preview: Eric Ravilious Scrapbooks

Posted on 07 August 2018

Eric Ravilious was an English designer, wood-engraver and illustrator born in July 1903. Growing up in East Sussex, he attended Eastbourne School of Art and then went on to study...

Tags: Art, art books, artists scrapbooks, artwork, Brian Webb, designer, Edward Bawden, Eric Ravilious, new publication, Peyton Skipwith, Ravilious, scrapbooks, Webb & Webb,

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Alison Wilding

Posted on 20 July 2018

Alison Wilding RA (b.1948) is one of Britain's foremost sculptors. Born in Blackburn in 1948, she studied at Nottingham College of Art from 1967 to 1968 before attending Ravensbourne College...

Tags: Alison Wilding, art exhibition, Art gallery, artist, artists monograph, De La Warr Pavilion, exhibition, Modernist Sculpture, monograph, sculpture, The Whitworth,

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Howard Hodgkin: Last Paintings at Gagosian

Posted on 13 June 2018

Howard Hodgkin, born in London in 1932, was a popular British artist known for his abstract paintings, many inspired by his regular travels to India as well as his friends and...

Tags: artwork, exhibitions in london, Gagosian gallery, Hepworth Wakefield, Howard Hodgkin, Howard Hodgkin and india, last paintings, paintings,

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Introducing Global Spectacular

Posted on 06 June 2018

Earlier last month we published The Global Spectacular: Contemporary Museum Architecture in China and the Arabian Peninsula by Karen Exell, Honorary Senior Research Associate at UCL Qatar. The book provides,...

Tags: Architecture, Contemporary Museum Architecture, Museum Architecture, Museums, Museums in China, Starchitect,

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Etel Adnan: Vibrant Landscapes

Posted on 05 June 2018

Etel Adnan is a Lebanese-American poet, essayist and visual artist. Born in 1925, she grew up in Beirut, Lebanon before moving to California and then France. Adnan came relatively late...

Tags: Art, artist, author, California, ceramic, Contemporary Painters series, Etel Adnan, leporellos, painter, paintings, poet, tapestry, writer,

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Plundering Beauty: An Extract

Posted on 04 June 2018

In March, this year, we published Plundering Beauty: A History of Art Crime during War by Arthur Tompkins, a District Court Judge based in Wellington, New Zealand. The book charts the...

Tags: art crime, art crime during war, art history, plundering beauty,

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INTRODUCING: PREFAB HOUSING AND THE FUTURE OF BUILDING

Posted on 19 February 2018

Our new book Prefab Housing and the Future of Building, edited by Matthew Aichison, is now available in the UK and in the US. The book provides a timely insight into the...

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Cook's Camden: An Exhibition

Posted on 01 February 2018

An exhibition exploring the acclaimed housing built by Camden when Sydney Cook was Borough Architect 1965-1973 has been announced by Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre. It is curated by...

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Thomas Nozkowski: 16x20 at Pace Gallery

Posted on 25 January 2018

In September last year we published the first monograph of Thomas Nozkowski's work and with it introduced our new Contemporary Painters Series. Now, Pace Gallery are displaying an exhibition of paintings by Nozkowski, approximately...

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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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Frederick Walker and the Idyllists

Posted on 04 July 2017

We are thrilled to be publishing Frederick Walker and the Idyllists by Donato Esposito, the first book in over a century to explore the work of watercolour artist and illustrator Frederick Walker (1840–1875), described...

Tags: Frederick Walker, Idyllists, Sir John Everett Millais, Victorian Art,

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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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