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New in paperback: Michael Bird's bestselling chronicle of the St Ives artists, illustrated in colour throughout.
List of contents
Acknowledgements; Preface to Second Edition; Introduction: Outside the Glass; Arrival, 1946; Artists and Gentlemen: A Short Colonial History; Connecting Circles: A Detour via Hampstead; Leaders must Migrate: St Ives 1938-45; Landscape with Wild Men: The Postwar Influx; Partisans: Community Politics in the Early 1950s; Getting Social-Personal: Class and Contacts; Keep it Real: Trouble with Abstraction; Western Horizons: Views Across the Atlantic, 1956-60; Home Ground: Women Artists in St Ives; Spaced Out: Into the 1960s; Terrible Times Together: The Poetry of Departures, 1965-75; Notes; Further Reading; List of illustrations; Index of People and Places.
About the author
Michael Bird is an independent art historian. His other books for Lund Humphries are
Sandra Blow (2005),
Bryan Wynter (2010),
Lynn Chadwick (2014),
George Fullard: Sculpture and Survival (2017) and
Studio Voices: Art and Life in 20th-Century Britain (2018). In 2022 he co-curated
Living the Landscape: Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and the Artists of St Ives at Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen - the first St Ives exhibition in a European public gallery.
Summary
New in paperback: Michael Bird's bestselling chronicle of the St Ives artists, illustrated in colour throughout.
