Nash, Nevinson, Spencer, Gertler, Carrinton, Bomber : a crisis of brilliance, 1908-1922 / David Boyd Haycock ; with essays by Frances Spalding and Alexandra Harris.
By: Haycock, David Boyd [author]
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Contributor(s): Spalding, Frances [editor] | Harris, Alexandra N [editor].
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BookPublisher: London : Scala Arts & Heritage publihser Ltd., 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 176 pages : colour illustrations ; 28 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781857598186 (paperback).Subject(s): Painting, British | Art and war | War artistsDDC classification: 759.2 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 759.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00238331 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
David Bomberg, Dora Carrington, Mark Gertler, Paul Nash, C.R.W. Nevinson and Stanley Spencer - six of the most important and distinctive British artists of the twentieth century - had all been students together at the Slade School of Art in London. They formed part of what their drawing teacher, Henry Tonks, described as the school's last 'crisis of brilliance'. For young British artists working in the years immediately before the Great War it was an exciting and demanding time as various Modernist movements fought for precedence: Primitivism, Futurism, Cubism, Vorticism and Expressionism. Each of the six artists found their own distinctive response. David Boyd Haycock's group biography, A Crisis of Brilliance, was published to much acclaim in 2009. Jenny Uglow wrote in her review in the Guardian, 'We should call for a joint exhibition of [their] work, to complement the moving portrayal of their lives in this engrossing and enjoyable book.' This book marks the fulfilment of that wish. It features Haycock's selection of 70 works, ranging from their early student drawings, watercolours and oil paintings, to the first great mature works that they made during and immediately after the Great War of 1914-18. AUTHOR: David Boyd Haycock is a freelance writer, lecturer and curator specialising in British and European art and culture of the early twentieth century. He is the author of a number of books, including A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War (2009) and I Am Spain (2012). SELLING POINTS: *Illustrated follow-up to the author David Boyd Haycock's first book on the subject, a group biography, A Crisis of Brilliance, which was published to much acclaim in 2009 *Includes contributions by Frances Spalding, the leading art historian and biographer of the Bloomsbury Group, and by Alexandra Harris, whose Romantic Moderns won the Guardian First Book award in 2010 110 colour illustrations
Published on occasion of the exhibition: "Nash, Nevinson, Spencer, Getler, Carrington, Bomberg: a crisis of brilliance, 1908-1922" at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 12 June - 22 September 2013.
The exhibition has been supported by Dulwich Picture Gallery Friends and Dulwich Picture Gallery Canadian Friends, The Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust, Modern British Art Supporters' Group, farrow & Ball and Art of England.
Designed by Nigel Soper.
Edited by Zoe Charteris and Oliver Craske.
Includes bibliographical references (page: 171) and index.
Foreword / Ian Dejardin -- Chronology -- Biographies -- Essays: A crisis of brilliance / David Boyd Haycock -- A crisis of belonging / Frances Spalding -- "We are making a new world": art, youth and war / Alexandra Harris -- Catalogue: The slade: early work, 1909-1913 -- The slade and after: works on paper, 1910-1914 -- The slade and after: works on canvas, 1910-1914 -- War: works on canvas, 1914-1918 -- War: works on paper, 1914-1919 -- War and aftermath -- Catalogue notes.