Perfect Moderns: A History of the Camden Town Group Tapa dura - 2000

Aldershot: 2000. 224pp with 24 colour and 40 monochrome illustrations. Hardback 28.5x23cms. ISBN: 184014291X. Beginning with the work of Walter Sickert, the author expands on the foundation and development of the North-west London based group and examines the work of Spencer Gore, Harold Gilman, Charles Ginner, Robert Bevan and Malcolm Drummond. A scholarly publication, it traces the history of the group, its disintegration, the creation of the Fitzroy Group and subsequently the formation of the London Group in 1913. Text in English.

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Aldershot, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing, Limited 2000. 4to. 224 pp, illustrated in colour Camden Town, in north-west London, gave its name to a style of painting and to a society of artists - the Camden Town Group - which held three exhibitions in 1911 and 1912. Both the style and the idea of creating an exhibiting society were formed by the interchange of ideas and influences at 19 Fitzroy Street, where in 1907, Walter Sickert first organized a number of painters - the Fitzroy Street Group - to contribute jointly to the rent of a studio. The style encompassed paintings domestic in scale, unpretentious in subject matter, informal and lively in execution. Its favourite themes included humble models, nude or clothed, shabby bed-sitters; domestic still lives; London townscapes and landscapes studied on visits to the country and abroad. Sickert's own sombre paintings, in particular the Camden Town Murder series, have come to represent the group's oeuvre but, in this text, the author explores… Leer más

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