Main entry:

Nash, Paul, 1889-1946.

Title & Author:

Paul Nash : writings on art / selected, with an introduction by Andrew Causey.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Description:

174 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-170) and index.
Early Writing -- Contemporary Art -- Art and Design -- Unit One -- English Landscapes -- Surrealism -- Farewell -- Paul Nash's Writings -- 'The Artist and the Public I. Harold Gilman and the Groups'. New Witness, 25 April 1919 (1) -- 'The Artist and the Public III. The Arts League of Service'. New Witness, 23 May 1919 (4) -- 'An English Ballet'. New Witness, 11 July 1919 (8) -- 'The French Exhibition at the Mansard Gallery'. New Witness, 22 August 1919 (11) -- 'A Loss to English Art'. New Witness, 14 November 1919 (15) -- 'Modern English Textiles'. Artwork, January-March 1926 (23) -- 'Woodcut Patterns'. The Woodcut: An Annual, no. 1, 1927 (24) -- 'Modern English Furnishing'. Architectural Review, January 1930 (26) -- 'Giorgio de Chirico'. The Listener, 29 April 1931 (32) -- 'Contemporary American Painting'. The Listener, 4 November 1931 (38) -- 'Art and Photography'. The Listener, 18 November 1931 (40) -- 'Nature, Life and Art'. Week-end Review, 5 December 1931 (41) -- 'The Artist and the Community'. The Listener, 20 January 1932 (46) -- 'The Pictorial Subject'. The Listener, 17 February 1932 (47) -- 'The Artist in the House'. The Listener, 16 March 1932 (50) -- 'Modern English Textiles I'. The Listener, 27 April 1932 (52) -- 'The Meaning of "Modern"'. Week-end Review, 16 July 1932 (58) -- 'Photography and Modern Art'. The Listener, 27 July 1932 (59) -- 'Abstract Art', The Listener, 17 August 1932 (60) -- 'The Artist and Industry', Week-end Review, 24 September 1932 (62) -- 'A Painter and a Sculptor', Week-end Review, 19 November 1932 (63).

Summary:

"Paul Nash is well-known as one of the most distinguished British painters of the twentieth century. It is less well-known that he was for a time art critic for The Listener and wrote for a number of important journals including The Architectural Review, Country Life, and short-lived avant-garde periodicals such as Axis and the London Bulletin. As a critic and essayist mainly in the 1930s and 1940s Nash was in touch with new art from Europe and took a lead in promoting British modernism. He wrote not only about the fine arts but about modern graphic and three-dimensional design (of which he was a keen practitioner), and about wider fields that interested him, such as landscape, English traditions in architecture, urbanism and design and, occasionally, his own art."
"This book brings together, with a commentary, a wide range of Nash's writing. It is an enterprise which has not been tackled before and reflects not only on contemporary art writing but on wider fields of British culture in the first half of the twentieth century."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0198174136
9780198174134

Subject:

Nash, Paul, 1889-1946 Written works.
Nash, Paul, 1889-1946 Écrits.
Nash, Paul, 1889-1946
Nash, Paul, (1889-1946) 1889-1946 Oeuvres Ecrits.
Art, Modern 20th century.
Art 20e siècle.
Art, Modern
Authorship

Form/genre:

Writings.
Art criticism.
Critiques d'art.

Added entries:

Causey, Andrew.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 219215
Call No.: ND37.N252 .A35 2000
Status: Available