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Alive with innovation: British art between the world wars

4 June 2022

9:00 AM

4 June 2022

9:00 AM

The Real and the Romantic:English Art Between the Wars Frances Spalding

Thames & Hudson, pp.384, 35

When I mentioned the subject of this book to someone reasonably well-informed about 20th-century British art, the response was: ‘Isn’t that all portrait and still-life paintings?’ Well, perhaps if you’re looking exclusively at the contents of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions – and even there landscape was another popular choice.

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