Looking to sea

Le, Brun, Lily

£14.99

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‘Looking to Sea’ takes us from Vanessa Bell’s painting of Studland Beach, one of the first modernist paintings in Britain, to Paul Nash’s post-war art that bore the scars of his experience in the trenches, to Martin Parr’s photographs of seaside resorts in the 1980s. Lily Le Brun embraces ideas from modernism and the sublime, the impact of the world wars and the influence of America, to issues crucial to our world today like the environment and nationhood.

ISBN: 9781529309249 Category:

Description

‘A remarkable and compelling book . . . I loved it’
Edmund de Waal

‘Ambitious . . . a chronicle of British art, unfurled against the panoramic backdrop of 20th-century history’
Sunday Telegraph

In this remarkable modern history of Britain, the ebbs and flows of the twentieth century are explored through ten pivotal artworks. Each coastal piece, created between 1912 and 2015, opens a window onto the ideas that have shaped our society, from the impact of the world wars and colonialism to conceptions of class and nationhood.

Bold and imaginative, Looking to Sea is an exquisite work of cultural storytelling, and a fascinating portrait of our island nation.

‘At once bold and delicate, far-reaching and fine-tuned’
Alexandra Harris

‘Empathy and intelligence lift memoir into cultural history’
Iain Sinclair

Additional information

Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

280

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

759.2 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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