Looking to Sea
What Coastal Art Tells Us About Modern Britain
Seiten
2025
Sceptre (Verlag)
978-1-5293-0924-9 (ISBN)
Sceptre (Verlag)
978-1-5293-0924-9 (ISBN)
Looking to Sea is an alternative history of Britain in the twentieth century, told through the prism of ten iconic artworks of the sea, one for each decade.
'A remarkable and compelling book . . . I loved it'
Edmund de Waal
'Ambitious . . . a chronicle of British art, unfurled against the panoramic backdrop of 20th-century history'
Sunday Telegraph
In this remarkable modern history of Britain, the ebbs and flows of the twentieth century are explored through ten pivotal artworks. Each coastal piece, created between 1912 and 2015, opens a window onto the ideas that have shaped our society, from the impact of the world wars and colonialism to conceptions of class and nationhood.
Bold and imaginative, Looking to Sea is an exquisite work of cultural storytelling, and a fascinating portrait of our island nation.
'At once bold and delicate, far-reaching and fine-tuned'
Alexandra Harris
'Empathy and intelligence lift memoir into cultural history'
Iain Sinclair
'A remarkable and compelling book . . . I loved it'
Edmund de Waal
'Ambitious . . . a chronicle of British art, unfurled against the panoramic backdrop of 20th-century history'
Sunday Telegraph
In this remarkable modern history of Britain, the ebbs and flows of the twentieth century are explored through ten pivotal artworks. Each coastal piece, created between 1912 and 2015, opens a window onto the ideas that have shaped our society, from the impact of the world wars and colonialism to conceptions of class and nationhood.
Bold and imaginative, Looking to Sea is an exquisite work of cultural storytelling, and a fascinating portrait of our island nation.
'At once bold and delicate, far-reaching and fine-tuned'
Alexandra Harris
'Empathy and intelligence lift memoir into cultural history'
Iain Sinclair
Lily Le Brun is a writer from London. A graduate of Edinburgh University and the Courtauld Institute of Art, she has written on art for publications such as Art Quarterly, the Financial Times and the Economist. In 2018 Lily won a Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Award for the early chapters of Looking to Sea. She lives in Paris, and this is her first book.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.05.2025 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 126 x 194 mm |
| Gewicht | 237 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5293-0924-7 / 1529309247 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5293-0924-9 / 9781529309249 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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