Frank Brangwyn and His Work, 1911 (Classic Reprint)
Frank Brangwyn and His Work, 1911 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Walter Shaw-Sparrow

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-02

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 9780267567171

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Excerpt from Frank Brangwyn and His Work, 1911 I have to express grateful thanks for assistance inword of acknowledgment for the care and skill they have brought to their anxious work. The making of compara tively small illustrations of very large pictures is a matter of the greatest difficulty, more especially when the works in question involve special journeys to public buildings and to private galleries out of London. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

John Rothenstein in the Interwar Years
John Rothenstein in the Interwar Years

Author: David McCann

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2023-07-12

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1527501493

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Appointed in 1938, Sir John Rothenstein was the first director of the Tate to embrace modern art, mounting a series of daring exhibitions and procuring a procession of audacious masterworks that, in the words of one contemporary, ‘completely knocked the stuffiness out of that veritable institution.' So why, since he died in 1991, has his name become a byword for reactionary conservatism? The answer is that from the outset of his career, Rothenstein refused to bow to the patriarchs of the avant-garde. In the 1920s, while they were busy decrying the figurative tradition, Rothenstein was championing a brilliant generation of artists whose work remained firmly rooted within it. In the 1930s, while they advocated a geometrical art of the utmost austerity, Rothenstein used his first curatorial positions to promote a new wave of exciting young British realists. Pitted against the progressives of Hampstead and Bloomsbury and inspired by the anti-vanguardism of his father and Wyndham Lewis, this book charts Rothenstein's earliest efforts to champion modern realistic painting in an age of abstraction. Along the way, it uncovers his selfless and pioneering patronage of artists as diverse as Stanley Spencer, Edward Bawden, Evelyn Dunbar, Paul Nash, Charles Mahoney, and Eric Ravilious. In so doing, it also establishes his importance in the reassessment of twentieth-century figuration going on today.