Studio lives : architect, art and artist in 20th-century Britain /
By examining the studios and studio-houses used by British artists between 1900 and 1940, this book reveals the ways in which artists used architecture - occupying and adapting Victorian studios and commissioning new ones. In doing so, it shows them coming to terms with the past, and inventing diffe...
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London :
Lund Humphries,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Section I: Legacies
- Chapter 1: A visit to the master: G.F. Watts and the Victorian studio tradition
- Chapter 2: Studio facts and studio fictions: "The Studio", the new journalism and the art novel
- Section II: The Studio as Home
- Chapter 3: An Arts and Crafts Movement artist in the Cotswolds: Henry Payne
- Chapter 4: The artist as architect: Roger Fry and Durbins
- Chapter 5: From a caravan to the urban stronghold: Augustus John
- Section III: After the Victorians
- Chapter 6: The artist and the swagger studio: William Orpen
- Chapter 7: Studio, sculpture, architecture: William Reid Dick
- Chapter 8: Old buildings, new art
- Chapter 9: The architectural heresies of a painter: Roger Fry and modernism
- Section IV: Building for art
- Chapter 10: On display: domesticity, masquerade, modernism
- Chapter 11: Buildings in the landscape
- Chapter 12: Modernism, art and industry
- Envoi
