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Stanley Spencer: An English Vision

Yale University Press

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Stanley Spencer, a central figure in the current revival of European figurative painting and a precursor of such artists as Lucian Freud, is among the most important English painters of the twentieth century. In this book, Fiona MacCarthy investigates Spencer's life, sets his work in its cultural context, and emphasizes the links between his life and his paintings. With extensive commentary -- edited from Spencer's own writings by Judith Collins of the Tare Gallery -- on each of sixty beautiful reproductions of Spencer's paintings, this volume provides a comprehensive account of a profoundly original artist and his work.

Finding inspiration in his quiet village on the river Thames, Spencer drew on his familiar world to arrive at an art of epic grandeur. Though he denied it, Spencer was a supreme landscape artist, MacCarthy contends. Like William Blake, Spencer found the miraculous in everyday things. Like his twentieth-century contemporaries -- including sculptors Eric Gill and Jacob Epstein and writers D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce -- Spencer was searching for a new expressiveness of sex, says MacCarthy. Contrary to the public perception of him, he was also a deeply political artist, affected by life around him and by his own involvement in world events. The magnificent wall paintings he created at the Sandham Memorial Chapel at Burghclere, for example, reflect his experiences as a hospital orderly and as a private in World War I.

Stanley Spencer's extreme combination of the homely and the weird has baffled viewers of his paintings. This book, delving more deeply than ever before into Spencer's personality, sheds new light on this sensitive and enigmatic artist.

This book is thecatalogue for an exhibit opening at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington on October 8, 1997, and later traveling to Chicago and San Francisco.

Stanley Spencer

Tate

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Stanley Spencer is seen as one of the most innovative British painters of his era. His works include pre-First World War paintings and complex pieces of the mid-1930s, produced at a time of marital and stylistic crisis. This catalogue celebrates the achievements of an artist who explored, experimented and developed his work over five decades and accompanies the exhibition of Spencer's work at Tate Britain, presenting him as a major artist of the 20th century who was profoundly engaged with the shifting nature of modern life. The book includes an essay by the painter and writer Timothy Hyman which focuses on the prolonged but strangely fruitful crisis of the 1930s, while examining both the visionary and realist strands in Spencer's imagination. Cultural historian Patrick Wright discusses Spencer's return to England after the First World War and the circles in which he moved.
Stanley Spencer

Phaidon Press

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Stanley Spencer's reputation has grown rapidly in recent years, and his visionary contribution to British art and his true stature as an artist are now internationally recognised. This is an abridged version of the 1992 catalogue raisonne of Spencer's work compiled by the same author, reproducing many of the illustrations and some of the original narrative. The work is presented chronologically and divided between figurative and landscape.
Stanley Spencer

Phaidon Press

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Stanley Spencer was the most intensely local of all great artists, and his native village of Cookham was a central source of inspiration. Yet he was far from parochial, and woven into Duncan Robinson's account of the artist's career is a just appreciation of his greatness and of his place in the wider context of European art. This book celebrates both the range and the powerful individual quality of Spencer's achievements as a religious visionary, war artist, portrait painter and landscapist.
Stanley Spencer: Letters and Writings

Tate

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Stanley Spencer is recognised as a British artist of singular vision, but he was also a prolifc and highly individual writer. In moments between painting, Spencer wrote thousands of letters. He filled notebooks, diaries and scraps of paper, recording his daily thoughts and future plans in a distinctly Spencerian manner. This book brings together for the first time an extensive selection of Spencer's key letters, notes and theoretical writings. Adrian Glew has selected from the wealth of Spencer's unpublished manuscripts in the Tate Archive and includes important sections of Spencer's autobiography which remained unfinished at the time of his death. Spencer always believed that his writings were as important as his paintings, and this volume offers a unique insight into Spencer as writer, thinker and artist.
The Last Romantics: The Romantic Tradition in British Art: Burne-Jones to Stanley Spencer

Lund Humphries Publishers

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The third reprint of an indispensable resource for students and art historians alike. This book continues to be the only general survey of this field, covering the diverse group of talent from the decline of Pre-Raphaelitism in the late 19th century to the rise of "Neo-Romanticism" in the 1940s.

From Burne-Jones to Stanley Spencer, with sculpture and children's book illustrators, there is no other volume as comprehensive or as broad of scope.

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Martinsville Bulletin, VA - May 23, 124
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Hunterdon County Republicans Face Choices On Tuesday - Hunterdon County Democrat
Hunterdon County Democrat, NJ - May 30, 2009
Hunterdon County Republicans Face Choices On TuesdayThe candidates are political newcomer Colleen Filak and Spencer Peck, who ran unsuccessfully last year in the primary for mayor. Ms. Filak has joined efforts with Mr. Krommenhoek and Mr. Mullay, and Mr. Peck is teamed with Mr. Marra and Mr. Imbriaco.

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Broadcasting & Cable, NY - May 30, 2009
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