Brilliant destiny : the age of Augustus John / David Boyd Haycock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haycock, David Boyd, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

John, Augustus, 1878-1961.

John, Augustus.

John, Augustus, 1878-1961--Friends and associates.

Painters--Great Britain--Biography.

Painters.

Friendship.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies

Physical Description:

272 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and color), portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Lund Humphries, 2023.

Summary:

Considered by John Singer Sargent to be the best British draughtsman since the Renaissance, Augustus John was the first of the British 'Post-Impressionists'. Such was his importance that Virginia Woolf declared in 1921 that by 1908 'The age of Augustus John was dawning,' and Wyndham Lewis would dub the ten years leading up to 1914 'the Augustan decade. Handsome, unconventional and full of brilliant promise and Bohemian spirit, John was the man almost every young British art student wanted to emulate. This book reveals why, telling his extraordinary story from his birth in south Wales in 1878 through to the end of his youth in the closing stages of the First World War.Interweaving his biography are the personalities who surrounded John, and the book looks at their influence on him, and his upon them. They include his fellow students at the Slade School of Art - his sister Gwen John and future wife Ida Nettleship, and his friends William Orpen, Ambrose McEvoy, Spencer Gore and Percy Wyndham Lewis - all of whom would become prominent artists in their own right. -- From publisher's website.

Contents:

Preface

1 Wales

2 The Slade

3 New Arrivals

4 Rivals and Lovers

5 Paris

6 First Fruits

7 The Rising Generation

8 New Friendships

9 Seeking a Remedy

10 Gifted and Interested

11 Men Who Have Failed

12 Brilliant Destiny

13 New Beginnings

14 1907-8 : The Realities of Life

15 The Way Down to the Sea

16 War to the Palette-Knife

17 The Influencer

18 Losing his Way

19 The War Years

20 Aftermath.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-263) and index.

ISBN:

1848226578

9781848226579

OCLC:

1370486360