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Face to Face: British Portraits in the Twentieth Century
Philip Vann
Sansom & Company Ltd., 2007
The core of this book is a detailed examination of 100 British self-portraits in the remarkable Ruth Borchard Collection.
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The Golden Dream: A Biography of Thomas Cooper Gotch
Pamela Lomax
Sansom & Company Ltd., 2007
Biography of one of the most individualistic member of the Newlyn art colony.
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Ella and Charles Naper: Art & Life at Lamorna
John Branfield
Sansom & Company Ltd., 2007
Details the lives of Ella & Charles Naper, valuable source for anyone with a strong interest in the Lamorna art colony with illustrations of art nouveau jewellery.
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The Women's Land Army: A Portrait
Gill Clarke
Sansom & Company Ltd., 2008
Land girls of two world wars depicted by the nation's artists.
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From Gothic to Romantic: Thomas Chatterton
Alistair Heys
Sansom & Company Ltd., 2007
A collection of eight essays questioning lond-held assumptions about Chatterton's life & offers new insights into the young poet's influenc on English art & literature.
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Peter Coker
Francis Spalding
Sansom & Company Ltd., 2007
This monograph concentrates on Coker's landscape works, with the aim of raising them from the obscurity into which they have fallen compared with his better documented work.
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Painting at the Edge: Brit Art Colonies 1880-1930
Laura Newton
Sansom & Company Ltd., 2007
The authors trace the development of the colonies in the 20th century when styles & subjects changed
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Keywords of Nineteenth-Century Art
Christine Lindey
Sansom & Company Ltd., 2008
A fresh approach to the study of the theory and practice of the nineteenth-century s fine art. Fifty key art terms provide a context for copious contemporary quotations from those with direct experience of the creative process: artists, critics, writers and thinkers. The book thus avoids the hackneyed definition of major movements and artists groups, and instead discusses these through a rich diversity of attitudes to each keyword: those, for ...
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Jacob Kramer
David Manson
Sansom & Company Ltd, 2007
The first biography of an important artist difficult to pigeon hole in the history of twentieth-century British art. A Jewish immigrant, Kramer was a contemporary of Mark Gertler, David Bomberg, William Roberts and C R W Nevinson, but was not interested in joining artist groups. Yet he brought a robust energy, largeness and simplicity of design to the English art scene. As Frances Spalding has commented, there is a quality in his art that ...
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Pristine Perceptions: The Art of Tessa Newcomb
Phillip Vann
Sansom & Company Ltd., 2008
Explores the haunting, sometimes eccentric paintings of this popular Suffolk artist.
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A Taste of Devon
Andrea Leeman
Sansom & Company Ltd, 2007
A Taste of Devon introduces some of the finest food and drink produced in the county, and profiles the people behind them. Andrea Leeman ranges from the north coast, wind-lashed in parts by the Atlantic, through farmyards, steeply wooded valleys and uplands to the more fertile south coast with the South Hams and the Dartmouth and Salcombe estuaries. It's hard to think of any other county with such diversification. Brixham may be the county's ...
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Evelyn Dunbar: War & Country
Gill Clarke
Sansom & Company Ltd, 2007
Evelyn Dunbar holds a unique position in twentieth-century British art. Described by William Rothenstein, when principal of the Royal College of Art, as one of the most promising of the younger painters, with real genius , she specialised in mural painting at the RCA and carried out decorations at Brockley School, Lewisham from 1933-36 under Charles Mahoney s direction. It was at Brockley that her work first gained public notice and wide ...
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Brunel and the Art of Invention
Claire O. Mahony
Sansom & Company Ltd, 2008
Isambard Kingdom Brunel embodies the self-reliance, hard work and inventiveness which was a core achievement of the nineteenth century; Robert Howlett s famous photograph Brunel with chains has become an iconic image of the spirit of creative adventure. This man, 'in love with the impossible , by sheer brilliance of invention and force of will, helped transform modern transport, engineering and architecture. In this short but beautifully ...
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Arthur Wragg: 20th C Artist Prophet & Jester
Judy Brook
Sansom & Company Ltd., 2007
Judy Brook's memoir of this gentle pacifist reveals the man behind the forgotten reputation.
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The Innocent Eye: Primitive & Naive Artists in Cornwall: Alfred
Marion Whybrow
Sansom & Company Ltd., 2007
The author contrasts primitive & naive painting through the life & work of 2 of Cornwall's distinctive artists. The survey concludes with brief profiles of a dozen other artists whose individual visions have enriched the life of this celebrated artist's c
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Artists in Britain since 1945: New Edition
David Buckman
Sansom & Company Ltd., 2007
A new and much updated edition of David Buckman's celebrated dictionary, which was hailed as 'the year s most important contribution to British art history when first published in 1998. As well as extensive updates, there are around 4,000 entirely new bi
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The Affectionate Eye: The Life of Claude Rogers
Jenny Pery
Sansom & Company Ltd., 2007
Details the life & works of a very important artist figure.
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A Singular Vision: Dod Procter 1890-1972
Alison James
Sansom & Company Ltd., 2007
Biography of Dod Procter, artist known for her monumental figure paintings, sympathetic studies of the female form and the painting of still lifes.
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Britain's Art Colony by the Sea
Denys Baker
Sansom & Company Ltd., 2007
New edition with introductory essay by David Wilkinson, of the classic sDEC 2006dy of the St Ives art colony in the 1950s.
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Art in Exile: Polish Painters in Post War Britain
Douglas Hall
Sansom & Company Ltd., 2008
The first major study of exiled Polish artists, focussing on ten painters who made their homes and careers in Britain before or after 1939.
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