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“The artists and the type of art he was talking about in his book had simply been completely marginalised since that moment in the 60s because they didn’t fit that neat Franco-American idea of what modern progressive painting was all about. Mellor was finding a way of recuperating a conservative, traditionalist and very particular kind of British-inflected modern art.” Read more...
The best books on Modern British Painting
Chris Stephens, Art Historians, Critics & Curator
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The Lives of the Artists
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The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century
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David Tennant and the Gargoyle Years
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