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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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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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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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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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Lund Humphries Landmarks – Ben Nicholson Volumes 1 & 2, with introductions by Herbert Read (1948 & 1956)

Posted on 01 August 2014

Benedict Read discusses the two books written by his father Herbert Read on the artist Ben Nicholson in 1948 and 1956 and the wider impact of Lund Humphries’ monographs in this period. The Lund Humphries monographs started with Henry Moore in 1944. This set a format of listing works, plentiful illustrations, an artist’s own writings […]

Tags: Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Ben Nicholson volumes 1 and 2, Benedict Read, British Modernism, Hampstead, Henry Moore, Herbert Read, Lund Humphries, Lund Humphries Landmarks, Modernist design, Naum Gabo, Patrick Heron, Paul Nash, Peter Gregory, St Ives,

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Book of the Week: The St Ives Artists by Michael Bird

Posted on 03 May 2013

As spring, sun and long, light days finally arrive in England in time for a bank-holiday week-end, city-dwellers take off westwards in search of surf, sand and wide open skies. To mark the arrival of a new season of holidaymakers in Cornwall, Belgrave St Ives launch their annual St Ives exhibition 2013 this week-end. It’s packed full of work by the group of […]

Tags: Adrian Heath, Art, Art Book Publishers, Art Book Publishing, Barbara Hepworth, Belgrave St Ives, Book of the Week, Breon O'Casey, Bryan Wynter, Cornwall, Lund Humphries, Margaret Mellis, Michael Bird, Modern British Art, Modern British Sculpture, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Sandra Blow, St Ives, St Ives art, Tate St Ives, Terry Frost, The St Ives Artists, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, William Scott,

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The St Ives Artists: New Edition

Modern Art, After Dark

Destination St Ives

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

Lund Humphries Landmarks – Ben Nicholson Volumes 1 & 2, with introductions by Herbert Read (1948 & 1956)

Book of the Week: The St Ives Artists by Michael Bird

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