Results for: books tagged ‘Artists’
The Strawberry Hill Set: Brian Fothergill
To Horace Walpole's house at Strawberry Hill, in Twickenham, came a remarkable assortment of poets and writers, artists and antiquaries, politicians and society figures. Among them were Thomas Gray, whose ... More
Sex & Violence, Death & Silence: Gordon Burn
‘Pop art was famously about "liking things", as Warhol once said. The first American Pop artists, like their English counterparts, were looking outward at the world around them rather than ... More
Journals, 1939-1977: Keith Vaughan
There is nothing like Keith Vaughan's Journals. They represent one of the greatest pieces of confessional writing of the twentieth-century. Keith Vaughan was a painter and belonged to the Neo-Romantic ... More
The Lacuna: Barbara Kingsolver
Winner of the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction, Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna is the story of a man’s search for safety in the grinding jaws of two nations, at a moment when the entire world seemed bent on reinventing itself at any cost. Find out more in our Q & A with the author. More
The Artist's Model: Frances Borzello
‘To admit to writing about artists’ models is to set off an avalanche of interest. "Didn’t Rossetti marry his model?" "Didn’t Augustus John sleep with all of his?’’ At first ... More
The Painter: Rebecca Lenkiewicz
The fashionables? They just want to know if a painting’s hot. Whether it will gain.Queen Victoria said of Turner, ‘He is quite mad.’ A cockney who spoke his mind, he ... More
A Pre-Raphaelite Circle: Raleigh Trevelyan
Pauline Trevelyan, friend and patroness of so many in the Pre-Raphaelite circle, played an important part in the lives of Ruskin and Swinburne in the 1850s and 1860s. Some mischievous ... More
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Fiona MacCarthy
From the prize-winning author of William Morris comes a new biography of Edward Burne-Jones, the greatest British artist of the second half of the nineteenth century.The angels on our Christmas ... More
A Potter's Book: Bernard Leach
'I have tried to formulate a criterion by which good pots may be judged ... a pot in order to be good should be a genuine expression of life. It ... More