An Opinionated Guide to British Art by Lucy Davies

An Opinionated Guide to British Art by Lucy Davies

Featuring 50 of the best and most interesting British artworks across history, this guide tells the story of British art as you've never heard it before.

From illuminated manuscripts to two fried eggs and a kebab (and all the paintings in-between). What's so great about Hogarth? Why should we care about an unmade bed? And who on earth is Banksy? Well, this book won't answer all your questions, but it will tell you everything you need to know, and nothing that you don't. Featuring 50 of the very best and most interesting British artworks from the dawn of history to the present day, alongside color reproductions and pithy explanations of key movements and terms, this guide tells the story of British art as you've never heard it before. The first book in a new series of Opinionated Guides on art movements, mediums and ideas which builds on the success of Hoxton Mini Press Opinionated Guides to London.

Sarina Finkelstein (b. 1981, Columbia, MO) has had solo shows at the Weitman Gallery in St. Louis, and Newspace Center for Photography in Portland. Her work has been featured in Smithsonian, The London Daily Telegraph's SEVEN, Amica, Fluter, on The New York Times' Lens, TIME.com, NPR. org, Discover Magazine's Visual Science and Photo District News' Photo of the Day. She was selected as an American Photography 29 Chosen Winner and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Lucy Davies writes about photography and visual arts for The Telegraph. In 2009 she created and now edits 'telephoto', their online project devoted to art and documentary photography. She is also contributing critic to a number of art, photography and interiors magazines.

Kevin Fagan is a veteran newspaper reporter and editor who writes for the San Francisco Chronicle and grew up in California and Nevada, where his family has longtime roots in the gold and copper mining industry. He specializes in the American West, homeless and poverty issues, in-depth feature stories and breaking news. Nominated several times for the Pulitzer Prize, his awards include the national James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism and Best of the West, and in 2006-07 he was a John Knight Fellow at Stanford University.

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ISBN 13	9781914314452
ISBN 10	191431445X
Title	An Opinionated Guide to British Art
Author	Lucy Davies
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Hoxton Mini Press
Year published	2023-10-26
Number of pages	144
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