Although its painters and sculptors have mostly been overshadowed by their contemporaries in mainland Europe, Britain has produced many outstanding artists, who are often overlooked in European studies. This phenomenon is examined in this study of British art from the Reformation to the present. The book is linked to a BBC2 television series. As he considers the works of artists as disparate as Stubbs and Bacon, Hogarth and Hockney, Constable and Henry Moore, the author depicts the cultural life of Britain since the Middle Ages which embraces not only painting and sculpture but also history, politics, architecture and literature.
- ISBN10 0563551488
- ISBN13 9780563551485
- Publish Date 21 October 1999 (first published 25 April 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 July 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher BBC Consumer Publishing
- Imprint BBC Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English