Looking to Sea

Britain Through the Eyes of its Artists

Looking to Sea
Lily Le Brun
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Hardback
h222 x 156mm - 288pg
3 Nov 2022 UK
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9781529309218
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' We see nothing truly until we understand it. ' John Constable An alternative history of Britain in the twentieth century, Looking to Sea is a exquisite work of cultural, artistic and philosophical history. From Vanessa Bell' s Studland Beach, one of the first modernist paintings in Britain, to Paul Nash' s work bearing the scars of his experience in the trenches and Martin Parr' s photographs of seaside resorts in the 1980s that tackle ideas of class and deprivation, Looking to Sea embraces ideas from modernism and the sublime, the impact of the world wars and colonialism, to issues crucial to our world today like the environment and nationhood. Looking to Sea is an astonishingly perceptive portrait of the twentieth century. Art critic Lily Le Brun brings a fresh eye, acute observation and challenges the reader to find a new way to look at the history of our island nation.
This history of twentieth-century Britain, refracted through ten artistic responses to the sea, is beautifully written - authoritative and questioning; scholarly, but also vividly insightful about bodies, private lives, feelings, the often-overlooked quotidian. -- Aida Edemariam, judge of the RSL awards
Lily Le Brun is an arts writer based in London. She has worked for Sotheby' s and Christie' s auction houses, and written for publications such as Art Quarterly, the Financial Times and The Economist. In 2018 Lily won a RSL Giles St Aubyn Award for the early chapters of Looking to Sea.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781529309218
Published: 3 Nov 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Sceptre
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Hardback
Height: 222mm
Width: 156mm
Weight: 41g
Pages: 288

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