A Lesson in Art & Life: The Colourful World of Cedric Morris & Arthur Lett Haines - Couverture rigide

Clair, Hugh St

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1910258369 ISBN 13 : 9781910258361

Editeur : Pimpernel Press Ltd, 2019

Synopsis

Interest in mid-20th century British artists and the world they inhabited is growing internationally - prices are rising and exhibitions proliferate. This biography focuses on the couple who were at the centre of the Modern British art scene: Cedric Morris (1889-1982) and Arthur Lett Haines (1894-1978). Both men studied in Paris in the 1920s where they absorbed the work of the French Post Impressionists, Cubists and Surrealists. Later in London, Morris became a sought-after painter of flowers, birds and landscapes, and a friend of Augustus John and Ben Nicholson. Lett was hailed as Britain's first Surrealist. They gave fabulous parties attended by the cream of creative London. Morris and Haines founded the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Suffolk, attended by Lucian Freud and Maggi Hambling. The atmosphere was described as `robust and coarse, exquisite and sensitive all at once, also faintly dangerous.' The conversation was sometimes bawdy and bitchy but never boring. Cedric Morris became an award-winning plantsman and poppy iris breeder. He was an acknowledged influence on Beth Chatto amongst others. A Lesson in Art and Life is a long overdue biography of a couple who were hugely influential across the spheres of art, gardening and cookery.

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À propos de l'auteur

Hugh St Clair is an experienced arts and design journalist with work published in numerous British and international magazines and newspapers. He has edited and written four books on paintings including Miller's Guide to Art and Buying Affordable Art.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pimpernel Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1910258369
• ISBN 13: 9781910258361
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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