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Art Department   Art Essays & Critiques (M - Z)   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 M to Z. For authors from A to L refer to the previous section of the Book Shop. M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Titles marked with appear on the Amazon.com site, and by clicking on the flag icon you may read more about the title or perhaps buy it if you so wish. Many titles also appear on the Amazon.co.uk site, and these are indicated with .     M British Impressionism by Kenneth McConkey The book contains information & many colour plates about an accomplished generation of painters - including Sickert, Whistler, Steer, Tonks, Orpen, Lavery, Legros, Bastien-Lepage, Sargent, Forbes, Knight & many others. 132 Illustrations including 70 in colour. (Review of the Hardback edition) Scottish Art In The 20th Century   by Duncan MacMillan   A Paradise Lost The Neo-Romantics Imagination In Britain 1935-55     by David Mellor The book originally published to accompany the exhibition held at the Barbican Art Gallery London 1987. Rarely seen paintings by Cecil Collins, Leslie Hurry, John Minton, John Craxton, Graham Sutherland, John Piper, Michael Ayrton, David Jones, Gerald Wilde & Keith Vaughan. The book also includes selected extracts from artists’ writings. A well documented chronology of Neo-Romantic art & culture   On Reflection by Jonathan Miller   Paris Post War: Art & Existentialism 1945-55   by Frances Morris et al The book accompanied the exhibition at the Tate Gallery London in 1993. The artists analyzed are Dubuffet, Artaud, Fautrier, Gruber, Wols, Picasso & the excellent works of Giacometti & Germaine Richier. David Mellor records existentialism & Post-War British Art in a minute section skimming over Michael Andrews, Paolozzi & Caro   P Impressionism by Phoebe Pool   R Imaginations Chamber: Artists & Their Studios   by A Bellony-Rewald & Peppiatt   A Concise History Of Modern Painting by Herbert Read Herbert Read’s A Concise History Of Modern Painting is an outstanding & comprehensive book. Modern painting from Cézanne through Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism & Abstract Expressionism is discussed, with 500 illustrations. A much valued reference book. Post-Impressionism from Van Gogh to Gauguin   by John Rewald John Rewald has extensively researched articles published over fifty years and which have never been translated before.   Studies In Impressionism by John Rewald Contains essays on the unique importance of brush-stroke in Impressionist painting. It also has essays on among others, Renoir & Degas, and four in-depth studies on Cézanne Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters by John Richardson   The Sorceror's Apprentice Picasso, Provence & Douglas Cooper by John Richardson   Master Drawings In The Royal Collection   by Jane Roberts   Modern Art In Britain: 1910~1914 by Dr Anna Gruetzner Robins This excellent book covers the works of Sickert, Cézanne, Picasso, Van Gogh, Matisse and others. Colours Of War   by Alan Ross This book contains a series of essays on a number of War Artists including Keith Vaughan and Graham Sutherland.   Modern English Painters {Lewis To Moore}   by John Rothenstein   Modern English Painters {Sickert To Lowry}   by John Rothenstein   Modern English Painters {Wood To Hockney}   by John Rothenstein   S Modern Art by Meyer Schapiro   The Reviews That Caused The Rumpus   by Brian Sewell   Bloomsbury Portraits by Richard Shone   British Art Since 1900   by Frances Spalding   Oil Painting Techniques & Materials   by Harold Speed The book covers the technical aspect of oil painting & analyzes the painting styles of Rembrandt, Velasquez, Reynolds, Frans Hals & Gainsborough. Contains 64 photographs.   About Modern Art {Critical essays 1948~97} by David Sylvester Sylvester’s robust prose in the essays collected in About Modern Art are very engaging. His heroes are Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, Giacometti & Bacon - a fine recipe! V Lives Of The Artists by Vasari   Recollections Of A Picture Dealer   by Ambroise Vollard   W English Post-Impressionism by Simon Watney   Expressionism   by John Willett   Y The Spirit Of Place: Nine Neo-Romantic Artists & Their Times   by Malcolm Yorke   The Spirit Of Place covers the lives of the Neo-Romantics, an important movement in British Art in 1935 but difficult to define. The artists in the book are split into two groups. In one group Yorke writes about the lives and works of Graham Sutherland, Paul Nash and John Piper. In the other part he describes the group of younger artists Keith Vaughan, Prunella Clough, John Craxton, Robert Colquhoun and Michael Ayrton.     Z Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art & the Brain by Semir Zeki     Click on a to read details about buying the associated title from Amazon.com. 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