Book Description
As a painter, illustrator, and critic, Paul Nash (1889-1946) was at the forefront of British art in the first half of the 20th century. Inspired by William Blake and the English romantics, Nash produced landscapes as well as some of the greatest war paintings of the 20th century. But he also produced some of the most imaginative responses by a British artist to European modernism, experimenting with abstraction and helping to estabish Surrealism in Britain. Nash is perhaps best known for the powerful antiwar paintings he produced late in his career. In this study, David Haycock reveals how, in engaging with the subject of war, Nash's unique talent and imagination found its true subject.
About the Author
David Boyd Haycock is an art historian based at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and the author of William Stukeley: Science, Archeology and Religion in Eighteenth Century England.
Paul Nash (British Artists Series) FROM THE PUBLISHER
As a painter, illustrator and critic, Paul Nash (1889-1946) was at the forefront of British art in the first half of the twentieth century. Inspired by Willam Blake, Samuel Palmer and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, he produced some of the greatest paintings of the First and Second World Wars. In the intervening years he helped introduce the British avant-garde to the thrilling potential of European modernism, experimenting with abstraction and helping to establish the Surrealist movement in Britain. In this thoughtful and comprehensive survey, David Boyd Haycock explores the full course of Nash's eventful career, his profound love of the English landscape, and the psychological forces that led him to pursue a lifelong vision of flight.
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