Considered by John Singer Sargent to be the best
British draughtsman since the
Renaissance, Augustus John was the first of the
British ‘Post-Impressionists’. Such was his importance that
Virginia Woolf declared in 1921 that by 1908 ‘The age of Augustus
John was dawning,’ and Wyndham Lewis would dub the ten years
leading up to 1914 ‘the Augustan decade. Handsome, unconventional
and full of brilliant promise and Bohemian
spirit, John was the man almost every young British art
student wanted to emulate. This book reveals why, telling his
extraordinary story from his birth in south Wales in 1878 through
to the end of his youth in the closing stages of the First World
War. Interweaving his biography are the personalities who
surrounded John, and the book looks at their influence on him, and
his upon them. They include his fellow students at the Slade School
of Art – his sister Gwen John and future wife Ida Nettleship, and
his friends William Orpen, Ambrose McEvoy, Spencer Gore and Percy
Wyndham Lewis – all of whom would become prominent artists in
their own right. This book is a long overdue, new interpretation of
this singular figure, who was both at the heart of the British
artistic milieu, and yet set apart from its movements and
manifestos.
General
Imprint: |
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
July 2023 |
Authors: |
David Boyd Haycock
|
Dimensions: |
240 x 170 x 33mm (L x W x T) |
Pages: |
304 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-84822-657-9 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-84822-657-8 |
Barcode: |
9781848226579 |
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