In Malcolm Yorke's classic 1988 study, The Spirit of Place: Nine Neo-Romantic Artists and their Times, the author defined a period of British art that still speaks to us. Rooted in the past but very much in tune with the difficult and changing times of the mid-c20th, the idea of a neo-romantic sensibility is an attractive one, holding out hopes for a deeper connection to our world as technology and industry seem to take us further from the source.

Here are a few books which cover those artists Yorke wrote about, plus a few others we feel breathe the same air