Sunday Times Art Book of the Year 2018 'If you are interested in
modern British art, the book is unputdownable. If you are not, read
it.' - Grey Gowrie, Financial Times 'All the good stories, and
more, are here … this is a genuinely encyclopaedic work, unlike
anything else I have come across on the topic, informed by a deep
love and understanding of modern painting. Everybody interested in
the subject should read it.' - Andrew Marr, Sunday Times A
masterfully narrated account of painting in London from the Second
World War to the 1970s, illustrated throughout with documentary
photographs and works of art The development of painting in London
from the Second World War to the 1970s is the story of interlinking
friendships, shared experiences and artistic concerns among a
number of acclaimed artists, including Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud,
Frank Auerbach, David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Gillian Ayres, Frank
Bowling and Howard Hodgkin. Drawing on extensive first-hand
interviews, many previously unpublished, with important witnesses
and participants, the art critic Martin Gayford teases out the
thread connecting these individual lives, and demonstrates how
painting thrived in London against the backdrop of Soho bohemia in
the 1940s and 1950s and ‘Swinging London’ in the 1960s. He
shows how, influenced by such different teachers as David Bomberg
and William Coldstream, and aware of the work of contemporaries
such as Jackson Pollock as well as the traditions of Western art
from Piero della Francesca to Picasso and Matisse, the postwar
painters were allied in their confidence that this ancient medium,
in opposition to photography and other media, could do fresh and
marvellous things. They asked the question ‘what can painting
do?’ and explored in their diverse ways, but with equal passion,
the possibilities of paint.
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