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Alan Sorrell - The Life and Works of an English Neo-Romantic Artist (Paperback)
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Alan Sorrell - The Life and Works of an English Neo-Romantic Artist (Paperback)
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Published to coincide with a major exhibition at Sir John Soane's
Museum, London from October 25th 2013 - January 25th 2014, touring
to The Beecroft Art Gallery, Westcliff-on-Sea, England and the
British School at Rome. Alan Sorrell attended the Royal College of
Art in the mid-1920s in a period that saw the emergence of Edward
Bawden, Eric Ravilious, John Piper, Henry Moore and Barnett
Freedman. From 1928 to 1932 he was a student at The British School
at Rome, Italy; from the 1930s Sorrell painted a large cycle of
murals including his celebrated Working Boats from Around the
British Coast for the Festival of Britain in 1951. As an airman
during the Second World War, Sorrell produced a remarkable series
of paintings characterized by a new perspective, broad horizons and
tilted aerial views which were to become a hallmark of his post-war
reconstruction drawings. He is perhaps best remembered for his
archeological illustrations for magazines and books and his
reconstruction drawings for the Ministry of Works (later English
Heritage, UK). Alan Sorrell's vision was born out of the Romantic
British tradition exemplified by Blake, Palmer and their
20th-century disciples. This book makes it possible at last to
assess the full scope of Sorrell's work and the underlying poetic
vision that runs through it. Comprising a series of essays the book
sets out to chart Sorrell's life and achievements, as well as
illustrating the range and diversity of his talents, most works
having never previously been reproduced.
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