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Art Essays & Critiques (A - L)

 
The Art Essays & Critiques section lists books about art history, theory, movements, techniques and essays about art and artists.

The books are listed in alphabetical order of authors' names. This page lists books by authors from A to K. Authors from L to Z refer to the next section of the Book Shop.

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Camden Town Group Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com  
  by Dr Wendy Baron
An excellent source of information about the Camden Town Artists. These included painters such as Sickert, Spencer Gore, Augustus John, Wyndham Lewis, Pissarro and others.
       
Art - Manifesto On Art, Society & Aesthetics Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com  
  by Clive Bell
The book was first published in 1914. Bell together with Roger Fry was involved with setting up the first Post-Impressionist exhibition in 1910. Bell discusses at length ‘The Aesthetic Hypothesis’.
 
Ways Of Seeing Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
Book Cover by John Berger
 
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Duchess Of Cork Street: The Autobiography of an Art Dealer   Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
  by Lillian Browse
Educated in South Africa, Lillian Browse's first love was ballet, but she had an active part in art-dealing for over 50 years. Her career started in the 1930s in London & helped to establish the Roland, Browse & Delbanco gallery in Cork Street. She pioneered the study of French & English painters & sculptors, among them Sickert, Degas & Rodin.
She had a significant part in promoting living British artists.
Her favourite artist & hero was Sickert. Sadly she failed to meet him, but received a telegram from him when she asked for his opinion on the authenticity on one of his paintings.
 

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Theories Of Modern Art Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
Book Cover by Herschel Chipp
 
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What Is A Masterpiece?    
  by Kenneth Clarke
 
 
Landscape Into Art    
  Kenneth Clarke
   
 
The Shining Sands: Artists in Newlyn and St Ives 1880 - 1930 Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
Book Cover by Tom Cross
 
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Painting Methods of The Impressionists Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com  
  by Bernard Dunstan R A
This is a very authoritative text and includes 135 colour reproductions of the works of 16 Impressionist masters.
Bernard Dunstan is one of Britain's leading painters. He is a member of the Royal Academy & the New English Art Club. The book contains the painting techniques of a number of artists & quotes extensively from their writings. The artists include Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Degas, Constable, Turner, Manet & Courbet, as well as the Post-Impressionists Sickert, Whistler, Bonnard, Cézanne, Vuillard, Sargent & Seurat.
 

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The Oxford History of English Art 1870~1940 Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com  
  by Dennis Farr
The structure of the book reflects painting, sculpture, graphic arts, decorative art & architecture over the 70 years.
Dennis Farr was Director of the Courtauld Institute Galleries, London & also City Museums & Art Gallery, Birmingham. He co-authored the Oxford Dictionary of Art

The book is sectioned into six parts:
  • Part One Painting & Sculpture 1870~1900
    • Whistler, Impressionism, New English Art Club, Sickert & Steer.
    • William Morris, Burne~Jones & Symbolism, Royal Academy & Portraiture.
    • Art Nouveau, Graphic Art & Sculpture.
  • Part Two Architecture & The Decorative Arts 1870~1920
    • Norman Shaw, Voysey & English Traditionalism.
    • The innovators: Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts.
  • Part Three Painting & Sculpture 1900~1930
    • Bloomsbury, Camden Town & Vorticism
    • Spencer, Paul Nash & The New Generation.
  • Part Four Architecture & Design 1920~1930
    • Years of transition: Art Déco, Design & Industry
  • Part Five The Modern Movement In England
    • Painting & Sculpture 1930~1940
    • Architecture & Design 1930~1940
  • Part Six Patronage & Collecting 1870~1940
    • The nation's Collections: Dealers, Collectors & Art Historians
 
Soho In The 50s Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com  
  by Daniel Farson
Farson paused in London's Soho; the pause lasted for twenty-five years. A well documented book covering the celebrated habitants, Francis Bacon, Nina Hamnett, Lucian Freud, John Minton, Jeffrey Bernard and many others.
 
A Roger Fry Reader Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
  Edited by Christopher Reed
Fry best known for organising the Post-Impressionist Exhibition at the Grafton Gallery in 1910. Christopher Reed has given us a well rounded picture of Fry and of his collected essays which includes his formulation of the theory of "significant form"
 
Vision & Design  (New Edition) Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
Book Cover by Roger Fry
The book contains twenty-five essays on art & criticism. It covers Ancient American Art, Giotto, Durer, El Greco, Claude, French Post-Impressionists, Cézanne & Renoir.
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Modern Painters : Reflections On British Art Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com  
  by Peter Fuller
 

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Art & Illusion Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
Book Cover by E.H. Gombrich
 
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Image & Eye Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
  by E.H. Gombrich
 
 
Meditations On A Hobby Horse Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
  by E.H. Gombrich
 
 
Illusions in Nature and Art Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
  by Gombrich & R.L. Gregory
   
 

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English Art & Modernism Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
  by Charles Harrison
 
 
Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction Early 20th Century Modern Art Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
  by Harrison & Frascina
 
 
Camberwell: Students & Teachers 1943-1960 Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
  by Geoff Hassell
 
 
The Norwich School Of Painting    
  by Andrew Hemingway
 
 
Gödel, Escher, Bach. An Eternal Golden Braid Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
Book Cover by Douglas R. Hofstadter
The book links the music of J.S. Bach, the graphic works of Escher & the mathematical theorems of Gödel. Hofstadter has written a vast, witty & extraordinary literary achievement.
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Impressionism Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com  
Book Cover by Michael Howard
 
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Techniques Of The Worlds Great Painters Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com  
Book Cover by Januszczak
 
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Watercolours & Drawings Of The French Impressionists    
  by H. Keller
 
 
Visualizations The "nature" Book of Art & Science Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
Book Cover by Martin Kemp
 
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Portrait Of The Artist 25 Years Of British Art Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com  
  by Jorge Lewinski
All the photographs in the book were taken by the great photographer Lewinski. They amount to 76 artists & their works. Among them are Ayrton, Bacon, Blake, Caro, Clough, Coldstream, Frink, Hepworth, Herman, Hitchens, Hockney, Lanyon, Mitchell, Moore, Paolozzi, Piper, Spear, Sutherland & Vaughan. The concise & informative text is also by Lewinski.
 
British Art Now    
  by Edward Lucie-Smith
 
 
Lives Of The Great 20th Century Artists Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
Book Cover by Edward Lucie-Smith
The complex story of how modern art was made. It is told through anecdotes & a series of biographies. Well illustrated throughout.
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The New British Painting Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com  
  by Edward Lucie-Smith
 
 
The Self-Portrait Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com  
  by Edward Lucie-Smith
 
 
Super Realism Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com  
  by Edward Lucie-Smith
 
 
 
 

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