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“Selecting even a half dozen works and artists she is able to convey how together they describe the whole paradigm shift in modern experience. Victorian Britain was a very different place from modern Britain. Artists can provide the signposts that help us to get from one to the other.” Read more...
The best books on Modern British Painting
Chris Stephens, Art Historians, Critics & Curator
Our most recommended books
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The Lives of the Artists
by Giorgio Vasari -
The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art
by Joseph Leo Koerner -
Ways of Seeing
by John Berger -
The Book of the Courtier
by Baldesar Castiglione -
The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century
by Svetlana Alpers -
David Tennant and the Gargoyle Years
by Michael Luke
