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Thames & HudsonReal and The Romantic - Frances Spalding
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Real and The Romantic - Frances Spalding

The surge of interest in the art produced in the interwar years by English artists has taken hold in the 21st century. Names such as Eric Ravilious, Paul Nash and Stanley Spencer have found wider recognition and female artists such as Winifred Knights, Frances Hodgkins and Evelyn Dunbar have come to the fore. In this new book Frances Spalding takes a fresh and timely look at this rich period of English art.

The devastation of World War I had left the art world decentred, directionless and, to some extent, depopulated. This book is about its recovery. Spalding explores the challenges posed to English artists by the growth in European art from the likes of Cézanne and Picasso and how new ideas could co-exist with a renewed interest in the past. Women artists, writers and curators contributed to the emergence of a new avant-garde.

Spalding contends that throughout these years the pursuit of 'the real' was set against, and sometimes merged with , an inclination towards the 'romantic', as English artists sought to respond to their subjects and times.

Hardback. 384 pages. 147 illustrations

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19.6cm x 25.3cm x 4cm

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