William Blake has long been regarded as something of an enigma, and his poetry, although much loved by young and old, seen as esoteric and mysterious. His 'natural supernaturalism', personal mythology and vision can leave readers dazzled by the intensity and passion of his verse. In this outstanding work, Chesterton goes right to the heart of the matter and addresses the question of whether Blake's genius was tainted by madness or whether his peculiar outlook on the world was the key to his success. With a detailed exposition of Blake's life, and by weaving lucid explanations of his philosophy and religion into a discourse on his poetry, Chesterton has produced a remarkable and sensitive biography.

The Iceberg is an account of the eighteen months leading up to the author's husband’s death and asks us how we witness and experience death along with celebrating love, family, language, art, and life. In 2008 Marion Coutts’ partner, the art critic Tom Lubbock, was diagnosed with a brain tumor that was located in the area controlling speech and language. It would eventually rob him of the ability to speak and ultimately took his life in early 2011.In short bursts of beautiful, textured prose, Coutts describes a man, a woman, and a young child under assault, and how the three of them fight to keep their family unit intact. Written with extraordinary narrative force and power, The Iceberg is almost shocking in its raw honesty and the beauty of its sentences. It charts the deterioration of Tom’s speech even as it records the developing language of his child. Fury, selfishness, grief, indignity, and impotence are all examined and brought to light. Yet out of this comes a rare story about belonging along with an adventure of being and dying.

Product Description: This lavishly illustrated volume recounts the adventurous life of Frederick Catherwood, the 19th-century English artist who discovered lost Mayan cities in the jungles of Central America and the Yucatan plateau. In 1839 Catherwood and his American companion, John Lloyd Stephans, were the first Westerners to view the immense terraces, fabulous temples, and elaborate palaces that had been inexplicably abandoned ten centuries earlier...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Chronicles the brief life of the renowned erotic artist, from his most provocative works through his impact on black-and-white art, describing his relationships with such figures as Oscar Wilde and his manipulation of the press and public

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Roger Hilton (1911-75) was one of the pioneers of British abstract art. This work presents an account of his life, which is illustrated with works from all stages of his career. It also includes anecdotes and reminiscences recalling his sometimes outspoken relations with other artists such as Peter Lanyon, Terry Frost, and Patrick Heron.

Product Description: George Stubbs was one of the most original artists Britain ever produced. His extraordinary dedication to accuracy impelled him to spend 18 solitary months dissecting and drawing horses to make his landmark study, The Anatomy of the Horse...read more

Charles Robert Ashbee—architect, designer, social reformer, and a major force behind the Arts and Crafts Movement—was one of the most significant figures in British artistic and cultural life at the turn of the century. Inspired by the Romantic anti-industrialism of John Ruskin and William Morris, Ashbee started a small craft workshop in the East End of London in 1888 called the Guild of Handicraft. He not only made it a place where work could be satisfying and creative, but in 1902 boldly moved the Guild’s workshops out to the idyllic Cotswold town of Chipping Campden. Utilizing the often vivid journals kept by Ashbee and his wife, Janet, the book documents Ashbee’s life and work, the story of the Guild, and the part Ashbee played in a wide range of reform movements.

Product Description: Albert Moore was one of the most important late Victorian artists. In this book the author presents a fresh view of the artist's allegedly reclusive personality, and firmly establishes him as a major figure and a significant precursor of Modernism.

Product Description: The reputation of George Stubbs has undergone profound changes over the two centuries since his death. Once neglected as 'only' an animal painter, more recent interpretations have stressed the social content and context of his art, revealing a figure whose work embodies complex attitudes towards upper-class sporting activities, the rural poor and the natural world...read more

Product Description: The art of Paul Nash drew heavily on William Blake, Samuel Palmer and Dante Gabriel Rosetti, and on Nash's close relationship with the poetry of the English countryside, leading to his characterisation as an 'essentially English' artist...read more

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Traces the career of the English artist and satirist, and depicts life in eighteenth-century England

Product Description: An account of the long friendship between the author's father and Ardizzone, illustrated with Ardizzone's Christmas Cards.

Product Description: Among British artists during the second half of the twentieth century, Ken Kiff displays one of the most individual and distinctive styles. His paintings and drawings in various mediapastel, charcoal, watercolorare often characterized by fantastic flights of the imagination, inspired by such artists as Klee and Mira...read more

Product Description: "Penrose", wrote Andre Breton, "est Surrealiste dans l'amitie" - and "The Friendly Surrealist" is an apt description for the man who more than any other nurtured the friendships and contacts which introduced European Surrealism to the British art world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book presents the life and work of the painter Terry Frost. It is a rich and diverse mixture of his own thoughts and writings about art and life, the history of his five decades of productive work as a painter, and reflections on the particular qualities of his art.

Product Description: Eric Gill is perhaps the greatest English artist-craftsman of the twentieth century. His most celebrated achievements were sculptures in stone and wood ("Prospero and Ariel" on Broadcasting House; the "Stations of the Cross" in Westminster Cathedral)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Aubrey Beardsley's art epitomises an age, often referred to as the 'Beardsley period'. In this book his letters and the memoirs and anecdotes of his mother, sister and contemporaries are complemented by numerous illustrations of his own works. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)