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Paul Nash (1889-1946) is one of England's most important artists. Though his career was relatively brief, Nash's oeuvre is impressively diverse and draws in paintings, watercolours, prints, set design, book illustration and photography. Focusing on the artist's work as a painter, Andrew Causey skilfully discusses Nash's work from all periods to pre
List of contents
Contents: Introduction; Chapter 1: Painter-Poet; Chapter 2: Landscapes of the Mind; Chapter 3: War and Aftermath; Chapter 4: A New Vision; Chapter 5: Mansions of the Dead; Chapter 6: Standing Stones; Chapter 7: The Life of the Inanimate Object; Chapter 8: Sunflower and Sun; Notes; Bibliography; Chronology; Acknowledgements and Image Credits; Index.
About the author
Andrew Causey wrote extensively on 20th-century art and was the author of Paul Nash: Critical Study and Catalogue Raisonne and books on Edward Burra and Peter Lanyon. He contributed to exhibition catalogues on Stanley Spencer, Andy Goldsworthy and other artists. He selected works for exhibitions in Britain and abroad, including British Art in the Twentieth Century at the Royal Academy in 1987 and was Emeritus Professor of the History of Modern Art at Manchester University."
Summary
Paul Nash (1889-1946) created an individual pathway through English art in the first half of the 20th century, shaping a body of work that recognised the importance of the modern movement and stimulated him to evolve his own English landscape-based Surrealism. Within a narrative that is both chronological and thematic, Andrew Causey.
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'It is an authoritative and reliable survey of an artist always deserving of close attention.' The Burlington Magazine
