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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 – 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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Lund Humphries Landmarks – Henry Moore Sculpture and Drawings, with an Introduction by Herbert Read (1944)

Posted on 19 March 2014

Former Head of Collections and Exhibitions at The Henry Moore Foundation, David Mitchinson, describes the importance of the comprehensive book on Henry Moore’s work which was published by Lund Humphries in 1944. The triumvirate of sculptor Henry Moore, art historian Herbert Read and printer/publisher Peter Gregory was one based on friendship, Yorkshire, and mutual respect. Read had […]

Tags: catalogue raisonne, David Mitchinson, Henry Moore, Henry Moore Foundation, Henry Moore Sculpture and Drawings, Herbert Read, Lund Humphries Landmarks, Peter Gregory, sculpture,

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Lund Humphries Landmarks: Grim Glory – Pictures of Britain Under Fire edited by Ernestine Carter (1941)

Posted on 27 February 2014

Antony Penrose explains the fascinating story behind the book which revealed the realities of London’s Blitz to the American public. By the time the full ferocity of the Blitz began on September 7 1940 Lee Miller, formerly a fashion model turned Surrealist photographer in Paris and collaborator of Man Ray, had been working freelance for Vogue for […]

Tags: Antony Penrose, art publishers, Audrey Withers, Blitz, Ed Murrow, Ernestine Carter, Farley Farm, Grim Glory, Herbert Mason, ICA, Lee Miller, London, Lund Humphries, Lund Humphries Landmarks, Man Ray, Ministry of Information, Museum of Modern Art New York, Peter Gregory, Photography, Pictures of Britain Under Fire, Roland Penrose, Second World War, Surrealism, Surrealist Photography, Vogue,

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Celebrating the ICA’s History of Innovation

Posted on 10 February 2014

Tomorrow sees the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) publish a new book documenting its fascinating early history. Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1946-1968, written by art historian Anne Massey and with a foreword by ICA Executive Director Gregor Muir, is the first in-depth examination of the extraordinary period of artistic activity which followed the Institute’s foundation. The early ICA […]

Tags: Anne Massey, Dover Street, Eduardo Paolozzi, Gregory Muir, Herbert Read, history, ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, Lund Humphries, Modern British Art, Other, Peter Gregory, Pop Art, post-war British art, Richard Hamilton, The Independent Group,

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Lund Humphries Landmarks: An Organic Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright (1939)

Posted on 29 January 2014

In May 1939, nearly 75 years ago, the celebrated American architect Frank Lloyd Wright visited London and gave four lectures at the RIBA. The meetings were hailed at the time as ‘perhaps the most remarkable events of recent architectural affairs in England. No architectural speaker in London has ever in living memory gathered such audiences.’ With great […]

Tags: Alan Powers, An Organic Architecture, Andrew Causey, Anthony Bell, Anthony Penrose, Architectural Association, Art Book Publishing, Barbara Hepworth Carving and Drawings, Ben Nicholson, Ben Read, David Mitchinson, Eric Gregory, Focus journal, Frances Spalding, Frank Lloyd Wright, Grim Glory, Henry Moore Sculpture and Drawings, history of architecture, history of Lund Humphries, Ivon Hitchens, Jane Drew, John Hoole, Lund Humphries, Lund Humphries 75th birthday, Lund Humphries Landmarks, Maxwell Fry, Modernist architecture, organic architecture, Paul Nash, Peter Gregory, Peter Khoroche, RIBA, RIBA Journal, Rick Poynor, Sir George Watson Chair, Sophie Bowness, Sulgrave Manor Board, The Last Romantics, The Penrose Annual, Typographica, Valerie Holman, Wells Coates, William Scott Paintings,

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Lund Humphries Landmarks – Looking Back, Looking Forward

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

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

Lund Humphries Landmarks – Henry Moore Sculpture and Drawings, with an Introduction by Herbert Read (1944)

Lund Humphries Landmarks: Grim Glory – Pictures of Britain Under Fire edited by Ernestine Carter (1941)

Celebrating the ICA’s History of Innovation

Lund Humphries Landmarks: An Organic Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright (1939)

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