Eric Newton

INTRODUCTION Oddly enough, there is no easily accessible and up-to-date book on Art in this country for the general reader. There are historical accounts of art movements, studies of particular painters and sculptors, and various memoirs and studies by leading artists and art critics. These are...

BRITISH PAINTING i. BRITISH PAINTING BEFORE HOGARTH Mediaeval Europe has handed down to posterity a vast and extraordinary record of its ideals, its aspirations, its complex attitudes of mind. Some of the loveliest and strangest buildings ever conceived, some of the most precious illuminated...

STANLEY SPENCER STANLEY SPENCER was bom in the village of Cookham-on-Thames in Berkshire in 1892 and has lived there most of his life. He studied at the Slade School from ipio to 1914. Those two brief statements contain almost all the information necessary for an understanding of his work as...

Foreivord to the First Edition What! Another history of art? Yes. Why not? The facts at every art historian's disposal are the same, but his selection of them and his interpretation of them must always depend on himself. I am certain that many of the facts that seem to me important are not...