Transformations; Critical and Speculative Essays on Art
- 318 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Roger Eliot Fry Book order
Roger Eliot Fry was an English artist and art critic who significantly raised public awareness of modern art in Britain. His work focused on the formal properties of paintings, emphasizing aesthetic qualities over depicted content. Fry championed French painting, coining the term Post-Impressionism, and his influence on taste was described as incomparable. He fundamentally transformed how modern artworks were perceived and appreciated.
- 2021
- 1999
Art Made Modern
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Christopher Nevinson is known for his depictions of the first world war, but his achievements as a painter and printmaker were more influential than the works of this period alone would suggest. In this book on Nevinson's work and his contribution to twentieth-century art, his achievements received a reassessment.
