Books by Lisa Tickner
“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
Interviews where books by Lisa Tickner were recommended
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Modern Life & Modern Subjects: British Art in the Early Twentieth Century
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A Paradise Lost: The Neo-Romantic Imagination in Britain 1935-55
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Francis Bacon
by John Russell -
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David Hockney By David Hockney
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Richard Smith Artworks 1956-2016
by Alex Massouras, Chris Stephens, David Alan Mellor & Martin Harrison
The best books on Modern British Painting, recommended by Chris Stephens
The best books on Modern British Painting, recommended by Chris Stephens
Artists the world over interpreted Modernism in very distinctive ways, explains the expert curator Chris Stephens. In Britain, painters like David Hockney and Francis Bacon worked in transatlantic dialogue with their contemporaries in the US, producing “English-accented echoes.” Here, Stephens selects five of the best books on Modern British painting that illuminate its place within a global movement.
