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A fresh look at a period of English art that has surged in interest and popularity in recent years, authored by one of Britain's leading art historians and critics. The 21st century has seen an enormous surge of interest in English art of the interwar years. Work by artists like Stanley Spencer and Eric Ravilious has soared in value while new critical attention has been paid to others, often women, who were previously overlooked, such as Winif...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Bloomsbury Group transformed British culture with their innovative approach to art, design and society. In this book Frances Spalding presents their fascinating biographies, all of which are illustrated with paintings and intimate photographs created by members of the group.

This revealing, illustrated biography of Virginia Woolf accompanies a major exhibition of portraits of the world-renowned British novelist, essayist, biographer and critic and her circle at the National Potrait Gallery, London. Includes over 100 colour illus.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers

A pictorial and commentary guide to the work of Eric Ravilious within the collection of the Fry Art Gallery.

Revealed through her own letters sent to those closest to her, this is the moving story of the life and work of novelist, Virginia Woolf.

Stevie Smith is best known for "Not Waving But Drowning", one of the English speaking world's favourite poems. This biography reveals a new side of Stevie Smith's character, and demonstrates that her solitude has been overstated.

An exuberant biography of John Piper, one of the best loved and capacious English artists, and his wife the librettist Myfanwy Piper, friend of and collaborator with Benjamin Britten. Together they were at the heart of art, architecture, opera, and the reshaping the perception of 'Englishness' in the mid-20th century.

The National Portrait Gallery's series of compact, fully illustrated, historical guides to literary and artistic personalities and themes. Written by well-known contemporary writers, they use works from the Gallery's Collection to examine the lives, thoughts and relationships within each selected group.

An overview tracing the development of British art and examining the careers of influential artists such as John Singer Sargent, Vanessa Bell, and David Hockney.

Hochlebendige Biographie durch mehr als 100 Abbildungen Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) war eine der bedeutendsten Schriftstellerinnen des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. Von Kindheit an spielte Kunst eine große Rolle in ihrem Leben. Umgeben von Porträts des Malers G.F.Watts und Fotografien ihrer Tante Julia Margaret Cameron wuchs sie in einem Kreis von Literaten, Intellektuellen und Künstlern auf. So verwundert es nicht, dass sie später zur zentralen Fig...

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Vanessa Bell was a central figure within the Bloomsbury Groupand lent to it a stability and coherence it might otherwise havelacked. A talented artist, she held sway with her acuity, integrityand a sense of humour. Yet she remained inscrutable, glimpsesof her life only appearing through her sister, Virginia Woolf. In this authorised biography, Frances Spalding draws upon amass of unpublished documents to reveal Vanessa Bell's considerableachie...

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was one of the most original artists of the late nineteenth century. Flamboyant dandy and ebullient publicist, friend of Oscar Wilde, Whistler was also a meticulous craftsman dedicated to the perfection of his art. Whistler was born in America but trained in Paris. He began as a realist painter but gradually developed a startlingly original method of composition, refining his technique to the barest es...