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Artists in Britain since 1945 [2nd edition]
David Buckman
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Special price direct from publishers: £70 (UK carriage paid)
‘This book more than meets my benchmark for a truly excellent reference work … accurate, reliable and fully researched. Librarians and archivists at a vast array of international institutions can vouch for David Buckman’s efforts … we can only acknowledge our daily indebtedness to his labours.’
So writes Krzysztof Cieszkowski, Acquisitions Librarian, Tate Britain, in a thorough-going appraisal of Artists in Britain since 1945 for Art Libraries Journal, in which he convincingly argues that the internet is no substitute for the scholarly accuracy – and lightness of touch – of David Buckman’s immense labour of love.
Many other critics and users say the same. ‘Impressive … unquestionably the most comprehensive and meticulously researched listing of artists of the period yet published. Nobody with an interest in contemporary British art should be without it,’ said David Frazer Jenkins in The Burlington Magazine.
A new and much updated edition of David Buckman's dictionary is now in print. As well as extensive updates, there are around 4,500 entirely new biographies and the number of featured artists totals 14,500. Many contemporary artists, including installation and video, are included for the first time. As well as artists born in the United Kingdom, the book contains many from Ireland, continental Europe, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and America who studied and worked for periods or settled in Britain. It is also strong on Polish painters who settled in Britain before and after the Second World War.
The new book totals 1888 pages, in two volumes (volume 1 = 1040pp, volume 2 = 848pp).
Hardback
£165 standard edition. SPECIAL OFFER PRICE: £70
ISBN 13: 978-0-953260-95-9
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Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall 1880-1940:
Dictionary and source-book
Edited by Dr Melissa Hardie 
Drawing on the West Cornwall Art Archive and many other sources, this is the most comprehensive survey ever compiled of many hundreds of painters, draughtsmen and women, sculptors and potters working in the peninsula.
The supporting information includes exhibitions, collections in which the work may be viewed today and extensive bibliographies.
This is supplemented by essays and a rich variety of source material from the Newlyn and Lamorna colonies, St Ives and Falmouth. There are essays on photography as art, the artists’ schools and classes, with full lists of those artists who attended the Forbes’s school, and the Arts and Crafts movement in West Cornwall, including the Newlyn copper industry.
Thereare approximately 100 colour and 200 black & white illustrations.
Retail price £49.50
Hardback
ISBN 13: 978-0-953260-96-6
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The Artists of Cumbria
MARSHALL HALL
Biographies of more than 350 painters, sculptors, draughtsmen and engravers who were born or lived a significant part of their lives in the area now known as Cumbria, and who were born between 1615 and 1900.
270mm x 210mm 102pp 110 b&w illustrations
ISBN 0 903858 01 0
ISBN 13: 9780903858014
Hardback £17.50
The Artists of Northumbria
MARSHALL HALL
Fully updated edition of the standard reference work on the painters, sculptors, draughtsmen and women, printmakers and stained-glass artists and illustrators of Northumberland, Durham, Cleveland and Tyne & Wear. The number of artists featured now totals well over one thousand and, significantly, artists born 1900-1950 are included for the first time.
This sumptuous illustrated volume is essential reference for art historians, curators, collectors, dealers and fine-art auctioneers.
A commentary covers the broad trends of artistic endeavour in the north-east, with map, extensive bibliography and notes on the principal national and local exhibiting venues.
This new edition was published in July 2005.
270mm x 210mm 456pp 125 colour and 280 b&w illustrations
ISBN 0 9532609 9 2
ISBN 13: 9780953260997
Hardback £55 - NOW ONLY £25
Keywords of Nineteenth-Century Art
CHRISTINE LINDEY
The author offers a fresh approach to the study of the theory and practice of the century's fine art. Fifty key art terms provide a context for copious contemporary quotations from those with direct experience of the creative process: artists, critics, writers and thinkers. The book thus avoids the hackneyed definition of major movements and artists' groups, and instead discusses these through a rich diversity of attitudes to each keyword: those, for example, of the Romantic, Barbizon and Symbolist artists and their publics to issues such as exhibitions, landscape, drawing and the pervasive influence of the antique.
The quotations are drawn from a wide range of sources. Chosen to exemplify particular historical, geographical, socio-political and aesthetic tendencies, these provide familiar pivotal figures to help guide the reader through a highly populated and fast-changing art world. The emphasis is on French and, to a lesser degree, British art but a range of European and North American art is also discussed.
The book provides quick reference, a rich source of quotations and an overall insight into the major preoccupations of nineteenth-century art and artists.
Published January 2006
240mm x 168mm 240pp
ISBN Hardback 0 9532609 3 3
ISBN 13 Hardback: 9780953260935
Hardback: £17.50
ISBN Softback 0 9532609 1 7
ISBN 13 Softback: 9780953260911
Softback: £9.95
Artists at Walberswick: East Anglian Interludes 1880-2000
RICHARD SCOTT 
The seaside Suffolk village has been a 'mecca' for artists from London, and internationally, for over 100 years. The book tells this story, including chapters on Philip Wilson Steer and the early years of the New English Art Club, and on Charles Rennie Mackintosh, who painted many of his celebrated flower paintings while exiled here. A biographical section profiles over 400 artists.
270mm x 210mm 188pp 80 colour and 40 b&w illustrations
ISBN 0 9532609 4 1 Hardback £29.95
THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT.