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| Genre/Form: | Art and the war |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Gough, Paul. Terrible beauty. Bristol : Sansom & Co., 2010 (OCoLC)741967363 |
| Named Person: | Muirhead Bone, Sir; Paul Maze; Adrian Hill; Sydney Jones; C R W Nevinson; Paul Nash; William Orpen, Sir; Wyndham Lewis; Stanley Spencer, Sir; William Roberts; Harold Williamson; John Nash; David Bomberg |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Gough |
| ISBN: | 9781906593001 1906593000 |
| OCLC Number: | 559763485 |
| Description: | 335 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: A commission in the army -- Fact and fiction on the Western Front : Muirhead Bone on the Somme -- Drawing as a means of calibrating the battlefield : Paul Maze, Adrian Hill and Sydney Jones -- C.R.W. Nevison : a painter with prejudice -- 'Barren, silent, godless' : the anti-landscape visions of Paul Nash -- An onlooker : William Orpen--le petit majeur -- Wyndham Lewis : 'a very dangerous type of spectator' -- Stanley Spencer : 'a genius pitched in the mud' -- Gunners, bombers, sappers and the 'PBI' : William Roberts, Harold Williamson, John Nash and David Bomberg -- War, art and the imagination : a coda. |
| Responsibility: | Paul Gough. |
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Related Subjects:(16)
- Art, British -- 20th century.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Art and the war.
- Artists -- Great Britain.
- Bone, Muirhead, -- Sir, -- 1876-1953.
- Maze, Paul.
- Hill, Adrian.
- Jones, Sydney, -- 1881-1966.
- Nevinson, C. R. W. -- (Christopher Richard Wynne), -- 1889-1946.
- Nash, Paul, -- 1889-1946.
- Orpen, William, -- Sir, -- 1878-1931.
- Lewis, Wyndham, -- 1882-1957.
- Spencer, Stanley, -- Sir, -- 1891-1959.
- Roberts, William, -- 1895-1980.
- Williamson, Harold, -- 1898-1972.
- Nash, John, -- 1893-1977.
- Bomberg, David, -- 1890-1957.
