Laura Knight - a panoramic view
2021
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Laura Knight (1877-1970) was one of the most famous and popular English artists of the twentieth century. She was the first woman to have a solo exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, in 1965. In the following decades her realist style of painting fell out of fashion and her work become largely overlooked. A new generation has rediscovered her work, finding a contemporary resonance in her depictions of women at work, people from marginalized communities and her contributions as a war artist. This book, which accompanies a major exhibition at MK Gallery, provides an overview of Knight's illustrious career: from her training at Nottingham Art School at the age of 13, and her time in North Yorkshire and Cornwall, to her visits to traveller communities and a segregated American hospital.
Main title:
Laura Knight - a panoramic view / Anthony Spira, Fay Blanchard.
Author:
Knight, Laura, Dame, 1877-1970Milton Keynes Gallery, host institution
Imprint:
London : Philip Wilson Publishers, 2021.
Collation:
224 pages : illustrations (colour)
Notes:
Published to accompany the exhibition held at MK Gallery.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781781301111 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
2235905
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