British Romantic Artists

Artists: William Blake, Samuel Palmer, John Martin, Frances Hodgkins, Paul Nash et al. 
Author: John Piper 
Publisher: Collins 
Date: 1942 
Condition: A generally clean and tidy copy, complete with dust wrapper, some minor chips and tears to the edges of the the wrapper and a small dent to the lower edge of the spine. Internally some light pencil highlighting of passages.

Published during the darkest days of World War II, Piper's illuminating and well-written advocacy of the Romantic tradition in British art is still very much worth reading. Knowing as we do how the next few years played out, we can now see how much of the art of the time, from Piper and his contemporaries, had a strong romantic element and would indeed come to be known as 'neo-romantic'. 

If you are interested in the work of Craxton, Vaughan, Sutherland, Minton and others of that ilk, then this is a very interesting read.