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NEW TITLES: IN PRINT AND AVAILABLE
'A Terrible Beauty': British Artists in the First World War
Paul Gough 
The work of Britain’s war artists has been well documented, but Dr Paul Gough’s penetrating survey throws new light on their motivations, responses to the conflict and their unique, and widely varying, interpretations of the effects on the combatants.
Profusely illustrated, with many familiar but also less familiar images.
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New insights into the work of the major and lesser-known artists of the First World War, including David Bomberg, Muirhead Bone, Sidney Jones, Henry Lamb, Adrian Hill, Paul Maze, John Nash, Paul Nash, Nevinson, Orpen, William Roberts, William Rothenstein, Stanley Spencer, Harold Williamson and Wyndham Lewis
Paul Gough is also author of Stanley Spencer: Journey to Burghclere on the creation of his great public work of art, the Sandham Memorial Chapel in Hampshire.
978-1-906593-00-1
SOFTBACK
336pp
£29.99
PUBLISHED
Trevor Frankland: Between Clarity and Mystery
Simon Fenwick
This first monograph on Trevor Frankland reproduces well over 100 of his works. They cover every aspect from student days to the present day, including those behind the development and construction of his domestic landscape which has been described as ‘an illusion in a sculptured place’.
Simon Fenwick’s text follows the artist from his childhood in Middlesbrough, describing the rather unusual circumstances that led not only to a career as an artist but also to the realisation of an early ambition to study at the Royal Academy Schools and eventually to be elected President of the Royal Watercolour Society.
Frankland was a visiting lecturer at Hornsey School of Art during the political ‘sit in’ of 1968, described in some detail in this book, which had an unforeseen beneficial effect on his work, eventually leading to his first one-person show.
His interest in the occult and involvement in freemasonry have much in common with that of many artists of the early twentieth century, reinforcing his belief that composition and structure carry the soul of an artwork.
Extensive overseas travel has had a strong influence on Frankland’s use of particular objects and choice of formal structures, leading to frequent re-use rather like an actor appearing in a variety of roles.
Throughout the text it is clear that the artist views his involvement in art not just as a studio event but also as an holistic activity governing every aspect of his life.
ISBN: 978-1-906593-20-9
290 x 210mm
160pp, profusely illustrated with over 100 illustrations
Softback
£20
PUBLISHED
Tessa Newcomb
Philip Vann
Born in Suffolk in 1955, daughter of the painter Mary Newcomb,Tessa Newcomb’s art arises from piercingly clear, pristine perceptions of the everyday and natural worlds. The drawings she continually makes – such as on riotously weedy Suffolk allotments, observing curious, even bizarre happenings in manicured Parisian squares or alongside Venetian canals, and while ambling or cycling among the clear light and spacious landscapes of East Anglia – are a rich imaginative source for her paintings. Tessa sees her art as inseparable from ordinary life. Each of her paintings seems to tell a secret story. Their eerily beautiful atmospheres and curiously juxtaposed imagery recall the art of Christopher Wood (1901-1930). Among her sources of inspiration, she counts ‘watching slow, atmospheric films’, early 20th-century urban photography, ‘going places and rail journeys’ and reading poetry.
This well-illustrated book – partly based on the author’s conversations with Tessa Newcomb – is the first survey of this artist of singular vision, with a keen, popular following. It reveals how her subtly multi-layered paintings are illuminated by an interior radiance, an awareness of what she calls ‘Spaces and Silences’, and a rare, magical poignancy.
ISBN: 978-1-904537-94-6
270 x 210mm
144pp, profusely illustrated with colour and black and white illustrations
Hardback £29.95
PUBLISHED: FEBRUARY 2010
THE LAST BOHEMIANS: THE TWO ROBERTS - COLQUHOUN AND MACBRYDE
Roger Bristow
The fruit of over twenty years’ original research, The Last Bohemians is the first full-length biography of two charismatic, talented and ultimately tragic individuals. It dispels many of the negative myths which grew around the pair following their early deaths and re-establishes their reputations as highly significant figures of twentieth-century British art.
In 1948, Alfred Barr, the esteemed curator of New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), visited London to purchase works from some of the new wave of British artists. He selected just five pieces – by Francis Bacon, Edward Burra, Lucian Freud, Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde.
A rags-to-riches and back-to-rags-again story, The Last Bohemians is the account of the lives and time together of the artists who were known in the 1940s as ‘The Golden Boys of Bond Street’. To research this book, the author raveled widely in both England and Scotland, interviewing many of their friends and admirers – well-known names in the art and literary worlds including George Barker, Prunella Clough, John Craxton, Daniel Farson, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Bryan Robertson, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Patrick Heron and Ken Russell (many, alas, are now dead, making their memories all the more precious). He was also given exclusive access to their personal correspondence.
Born and brought up in Ayrshire to poor, working-class families, Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde met at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1930s. They moved to London in 1941 and quickly became associated with the Neo-Romantic group of painters which included Keith Vaughan and John Minton. At a time when homosexuality was not only illegal but actively persecuted, they made little attempt to disguise their relationship and they had a constant stream of admirers, both male and female. The circle of friends that grew around them included the painters Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Michael Ayrton, John Minton and the poets George Barker and Dylan Thomas, all attending the regular weekend soirées held by The Roberts at their fashionable Kensington studio.
With catalogue raisonne.
244 x 172mm
456pp
profusely illustrated with 81 colour and 32 black and white illustrations
hardback £29.95
PUBLISHED
ALFRED EAST: LYRICAL LANDCAPE PAINTER
Paul Johnson and Kenneth McConkey 
Alfred East was the most significant figure in English landscape painting in the decades before the First World War, following in the direct line of Constable and Turner. And yet there has never been a full biography.
He was in his late-thirties when he left the family shoe-making business in Kettering for the precarious calling of professional artist. For the next 30 years he immortalised the rich landscape of Britain as it changed with the weather, the hour and the season. He also sketched regularly in France, Italy, Spain and north Africa and notably, following a visit in 1889, brought back the landscape of Japan to an appreciative home audience. In later years, he was a frequent traveller in the USA, where his work proved equally popular.
With national and international recognition for his landscapes in the 1880s and 1890s, East became a champion of decorative art and of his own evolutionary view of art in the face of the modernism of the new century.
The authors provide a critical assessment of East’s place as an artist in the Indian summer of imperial Britain. The book is generously illustrated with a range of East’s work in oils, watercolour and etchings drawn from private and public collections, including the Kettering art gallery which bears his name. This book offers the most representative showing of East’s work for almost one hundred years.
978-1-906593-33-9
144pp
Copious colour illustrations
softback
£19.95
PUBLISHED AND AVAILABLE NOW
MARGARET LOVELL: SCULPTOR
PETER DAVIES AND OTHERS
This sumptuously illustrated book discusses the life and work of an award-winning sculptor who works largely in bronze, mainly but nor exclusively near-abstract and suggesting organic links to natural and botanical forms as well as the human figure. Her work varies in size from a few inches to eighteen feet in height, all notably elegant in form and texture.
More than 220 works, including commissions for Unilever, John Player and the Arts Council, are illustrated, mainly in colour.
ISBN 978-1-906593-35-3
240mm x 210mm
144 pages
Hardback £29.95
SOCIAL, SAVAGE, SENSUAL
THE SCULPTURE OF RALPH BROWN 
This book presents a critical overview of the work of Ralph Brown, a British artist much admired by Henry Moore,who has worked within the tradition of figurative sculpture for over sixty years. It explores Brown’s connections to historical and contemporary sculpture, taking in humanist and ‘social realist’ themes of the 1950s, his exploration of movement through space at the turn of the decade, his extensive exploration of the relief sculpture and, finally, the sensual and sexualised body from the 1960s onwards.
Alongside extensive illustrative documentation and photographs, a range of sculpture scholars and other key commentators provide a reassessment of Brown’s work: Gillian Whiteley presents an overview of Brown’s sculpture, Jon Wood focuses on an important early period spent in Paris, John le Carré comments from the collector’s perspective and Rungwe Kingdon offers an insight into the world of casting the artist’s work.
Published to coincide with a series of major exhibitions of his work, biographical information, extracts from important articles and essays and inventories of exhibitions, public commissions and collections complete the study, providing a wealth of material for further scholarly research.
ISBN 978-1-904537-95-3
300 x 245 mm
168pp
Hardback
£45
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