FROM THE PUBLISHER

Paul Nash is well-known as one of the most distinguished British painters of the twentieth century. It is less well-known that he was for a time art critic for The Listener and wrote for a number of important journals including The Architectural Review, Country Life, and short-lived avant-garde periodicals such as Axis and the London Bulletin. As a critic and essayist mainly in the 1930s and 1940s Nash was in touch with new art from Europe and took a lead in promoting British modernism. He wrote not only about the fine arts but about modern graphic and three-dimensional design (of which he was a keen practitioner), and about wider fields that interested him, such as landscape, English traditions in architecture, urbanism and design and, occasionally, his own art.