In the first half of the 20th century, Paul Nash (1889–1966) carved out a unique path in English art. He produced a body of work that acknowledged the significance of the modern movement and inspired him to develop his own English landscape-based Surrealism. The foremost expert on Paul Nash, Andrew Causey, reveals the nature of Nash's worldview and dissects his personal mythology in a chronological and thematic narrative.
The principles that Nash holds bind him to Romanticism, a movement in art that is deeply infused with sentiment and where landscape aspects converge with personal identification and an awareness of the fundamental character of England. Nash's painting serves as the primary source of proof for this, but Andrew Causey also highlights the relevance of the artist's book illustrations and how informative his writings are. This book builds on the author's ground-breaking catalogue raisonné on the artist by situating Nash's vision within a larger cultural context of poetry and literature while also taking into account fresh scholarly research.
Paul Nash blends the best of Nash's paintings with the most recent scholarship and includes 100 color photos. It is a priceless addition to the literature on an artist whose significance to English art is becoming acknowledged.