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Author:   Frances Spalding (Art historian, biographer, and critic; Professor of Art History at Newcastle University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 20.80cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 24.70cm
Weight:   1.474kg
ISBN:  

9780198804826

ISBN 10:   0198804822
Pages:   624
Publication Date:   09 March 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Part I 1: John 2: 'That's Painting!' 3: Stained Glass and Coastal Gaiety 4: Orchard's Angel Part II 5: Going Modern 6: Axis 7: Abstract and Concrete 8: 'Look, Stranger, at this island now' Part III 9: New and shattered circumstances 10: Decrepit Glory, Pleasing Decay 11: 'The Weather in Our Souls' 12: Fawley Bum Part IV 13: War Artist 14: Stormy Weather 15: Renishaw and the Sitwells 16: Topographical Mania 17: Sly Liaisons 18: Stern Watching and Mysterious Sympathy Part V 19: Return to Peace 20: Working for the Stage and with Britten 21: 'A firm shape among shadows' 22: Cranko and Britten 23: The Turn of the Screw 24: Textiles, Mosaics, Murals, and early Stained Glass 25: Coventry and Cranks Part VI 26: Ambiguous Venice 27: Dark Glasses at Evensong 28: Church Commissions 29: Owen Wingrave 30: Shell Guides 31: Pottery, Tapestries, and Fireworks 32: Death in Venice Part VII 33: Deaths and Entrances 34: An English Garden 35: Myfanwy

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Frances Spalding began writing on British art early in her career and rapidly became of leading voice in this field, writing extensively in newspapers, magazines and exhibition catalogues on this subject before publishing British Art since 1900, the first overview of twentieth-century British art which has been widely used in schools, colleges, and universities. She went to achieve renown as a biographer, with lives of Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, John Minton, Duncan Grant, Gwen Raverat, and of the poet Stevie Smith. She has also written a centenary history of the Tate and an introduction to Bloomsbury in the National Portrait Gallery's 'Insight' series. She is a popular speaker at festivals and other events.

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