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Edward Burra : twentieth-century eye /

Edward Burra never followed the fashion: in the thirties, when modern art was dominated by abstraction and landscape, he painted people; in the sixties, when landscape was completely out of fashion, he started to find it interesting.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stevenson, Jane, 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Pimlico, 2008.
Subjects:
Burra, Edward John, > 1905-1976.
Painters > Great Britain > Biography.
Peintres > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
Painters.
Great Britain.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Rye
  • London
  • Moving On
  • Finishing Schools
  • Art and Craft
  • The Warm South
  • Ballet
  • Spain
  • The New Found Land
  • Mexico and Venice
  • War
  • Ruins in a Landscape
  • Still Life
  • Flower Power
  • Getting Quietly Pissed
  • Empty Bottles and Old Shit.