Isbn: 9789780500252 (4 results)

First edition 2010. 320 pages. Illustrated. Cloth. Very good indeed in dustjacket. In this new and engaging study Alex Harris presents a confident case for the interest and importance of the English arts during the modern period. During the 1930s and 1940s, a rich network of cultural and personal encounters was the backdrop for a modern English renaissance, with English artists exploring what it meant to be alive at that moment and in England. Harris examines the work of writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics and composers, some well known and some almost forgotten: John Betjeman, Florence White, Evelyn Waugh, Elizabeth Bowen, the Sitwells, John Piper, Cecil Beaton and more.…

First edition 1989. Cloth. Near fine in dustjacket. Ask to see our other Military titles.

A FINE COPY IN A FINE DUSTWRAP. 128 ILLUSTRATIONS, 56 IN COLOUR.

FIRST EDITION. A NEAR FINE COPY IN A NEAR FINE DUSTWRAP. 253 ILLUSTRATIONS, 127 IN COLOUR. SCARCE.