A crisis of brilliance : five young British artists and the Great War / David Boyd Haycock
2009, First Edition. London : Old Street. Signed and inscribed by the author. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #444214
ISBN: 9781905847846
Physical description; 386 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Stanley Spencer -- Mark Gertler and Henry Tonks -- Richard Nevinson -- 'The Slade Coster Gang' -- Paul Nash and Dora Carrington -- Roger Fry and post-impressionists -- 'This anarchic & egoistical condition' -- 'That awful ghost Tonks' -- 'The din of happiness' -- 'A most wonderful country' -- Eddie Marsh and Les Jeunes -- 'Georgian painters' -- 'No ordinary war' -- 'A valuable man' -- 'Ever busy yet ever at rest' -- 'Strident lies and foul death' -- War artists -- Armistice -- Epilogue: 'Another life, another world'. Subjects; Spencer, Stanley Sir 1891-1959. Nash, Paul 1889-1946. Gertler, Mark 1891-1939. Nevinson, C. R. W. (Christopher Richard Wynne) 1889-1946. Carrington, Dora de Houghton 1893-1932. Nevinson, Richard. Carrington, Dora 1893-1932. Slade School of Art (London). Slade School of Fine Art History. 1900-1999. Artists Great Britain. Art, British 20th century. Art, British 20th century Themes, motives.
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