128 pages, hardback, 274 x 240 mm, 110 colour illustrations
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ISBN: 978 1 903470 28 2
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From 1900 to 1950 Lancashire's galleries, fuelled by large endowment funds and civic pride, vied with each other to build collections of work by the most important artists living in Britain. Creative Tension showcases the outstanding collections of Gallery Oldham; the Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston; Bolton Museum & Art Gallery; Touchstones Rochdale; along with a small number of works from other North-west British galleries.
The period was a time of great change, excitement and conflict in British art. The collections of the four galleries are used to present an alternative history of the time, showing the tensions and crossovers between very different artistic styles. Works by famous artists such as L.S. Lowry, Ben Nicholson, Alfred Munnings, Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud and Mark Gertler are featured alongside works by now lesser-known artists whose work nevertheless has great interest.A significant role is played also by studio pottery, which in the theory of the time was perceived as an abstract art equivalent in importance to painting and sculpture.
This book is first published to accompany the major exhibition at Compton Verney, ‘The Artist’s Studio’, staged at this great Adam-designed country house in Warwickshire. This rarely studied subject is covered in expert essays based upon new research from the late sixteenth century to the present day, focusing upon artists from Rembrandt and Courbet, via Rossetti and Cézanne to Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon. More