On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Reference Library / Subject Terms: Art, British -- 20th century.

1. Gilbert & George : obsessions & compulsions / Robin Dutt.

Creator:: Dutt, Robin
Date:: c2004
Physical Description:: 144 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

2. Good bye to London : radical art & politics in the 70's.

Date:: 2010
Physical Description:: 207 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

3. The battle for realism : figurative art in Britain during the Cold War, 1945-60 / James Hyman.

Creator:: Hyman, James
Date:: c2001
Physical Description:: vii, 264 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

4. The women who shaped modern art in Britain / James Scott.

Creator:: Scott, James (Orthopedist)
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 287 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

5. The private lives of pictures : art at home in Britain,1800-1940 / Nicholas Tromans.

Creator:: Tromans, Nicholas
Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: 294 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

6. Patrick Procktor : art and life / Ian Massey.

Creator:: Massey, Ian
Date:: 2010
Physical Description:: 224 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

7. Panic attack! : art in the punk years / edited by Mark Sladen and Ariella Yedgar.

Date:: 2007
Physical Description:: 222 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

8. Forced journeys : artists in exile in Britain c.1933-45 : Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art, 21 January-19 April 2009 / [edited by Sarah MacDougall and Rachel Dickson].

Date:: c2009
Physical Description:: 112 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

9. This is tomorrow : twentieth-century Britain and its artists / Michael Bird.

Creator:: Bird, Michael, 1958–
Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: 352 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

10. The cultural devolution : art in Britain in the late Twentieth Century / Neil Mulholland.

Creator:: Mulholland, Neil
Date:: 2003
Physical Description:: ix, 220 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

11. Face to face : British self-portraits in the twentieth century / Philip Vann.

Creator:: Vann, Philip
Date:: 2004
Physical Description:: 309 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

12. The British Council Collection : 1984-1994.

Creator:: British Council
Date:: c1995
Physical Description:: xi, 168 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

13. Norman Garstin : Irishman & Newlyn artist / Richard Pryke.

Creator:: Pryke, Richard
Date:: c2005
Physical Description:: 224 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

14. Imaging migration in post-war Britain : artists of Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese heritage / Beccy Kennedy-Schtyk.

Creator:: Kennedy-Schtyk, Beccy
Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: xiv, 217 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

15. British art and the First World War, 1914-1924 / James Fox (Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge).

Creator:: Fox, James, 1982–
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: xii, 233 pages, 11 numbered pages of plates ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

16. Studio lives : architect, art and artist in 20th-century Britain / Louise Campbell.

Creator:: Campbell, Louise, 1950–
Date:: 2019
Physical Description:: 288 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

17. The Turner Prize : twenty years / Virginia Button.

Creator:: Button, Virginia
Date:: 2003
Physical Description:: 204 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

18. Artrage! : the story of the BritArt revolution / Elizabeth Fullerton.

Creator:: Fullerton, Elizabeth
Date:: 2016
Physical Description:: 285 pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

19. As found : the discovery of the ordinary / edited by Claude Lichtenstein, Thomas Schregenberger.

Date:: 2001
Physical Description:: 319 p. : many ill. (some col.), plans ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

20. Bad behaviour : from the Arts Council Collection.

Date:: c2003
Physical Description:: 96 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

21. Artists making landscapes in post-war Britain / Margaret Garlake.

Creator:: Garlake, Margaret
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: ix, 302 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

22. Contemporary art in the United Kingdom / edited by John Slyce, Phoebe Adler.

Date:: 2012
Physical Description:: 221 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

23. Out of the ivory tower : the independent group and popular culture / Anne Massey.

Creator:: Massey, Anne, 1956–
Date:: 2013
Physical Description:: xii, 192 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

24. Prints : modern british, international, contemporary : 23 - 27 April ... London Original Print Fair [and] 30 April - 17 May ... Osborne Samuel.

Date:: 2008
Physical Description:: 56 p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

25. Confronting dominant tendencies in the contemporary art world [videorecording] : an open discussion moderated by Angus Trumble.

Date:: 2010
Physical Description:: 1 videodisc (DVD) (66 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Collection:: Reference Library

26. The mystery of appearance : conversations between ten British post-war painters / Catherine Lampert, Tom Hunt.

Creator:: Lampert, Catherine
Date:: 2011
Physical Description:: 128 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

27. War tourisms : "Englishness", art and the first World War / Sue Malvern.

Creator:: Malvern, Sue, 1951–
Physical Description:: p. [47]-66
Collection:: Reference Library

28. British art in the cultural field, 1939-69 / edited by Lisa Tickner and David Peters Corbett.

Date:: 2012, ♭2012
Physical Description:: 278 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

29. A crisis of brilliance : five young British artists and the Great War / David Boyd Haycock.

Creator:: Haycock, David Boyd, 1968–
Date:: 2009
Physical Description:: 386 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

30. Liberation begins in the imagination : writings on Caribbean-British art / edited by David A. Bailey and Allison Thompson.

Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 383 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

31. Art without frontiers : the history of the British Council, visual arts, and a changing world / Annebella Pollen.

Creator:: Pollen, Annebella
Date:: 2023
Physical Description:: 408 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

32. 20th-century British art.

Date:: 1987
Physical Description:: 80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm + Includes 1 cut-out sheet.
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Graham W.J. Beal.

33. The art of brutalism : rescuing hope from catastrophe in 1950s Britain / Ben Highmore.

Creator:: Highmore, Ben, 1961–
Date:: [2017]
Physical Description:: 297 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

34. Performance and spectatorship in Edwardian art writing / Sophie Hatchwell.

Creator:: Hatchwell, Sophie
Date:: [2019]
Physical Description:: xi, 126 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

35. British artists at work / photographs, Amanda Eliasch ; texts Gemma De Cruz ; with additional material by Kay Hartenstein-Saatchi and Martin Maloney ; original concept by Franca Sozzani.

British artists at work / photographs, Amanda Eliasch ; texts Gemma De Cruz ; with additional material by Kay Hartenstein-Saatchi and Martin Maloney ; original concept by Franca Sozzani.

Creator:: Eliasch, Amanda
Date:: c2003
Physical Description:: 291 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

36. The hidden mod in modern art : London 1957-1969 / Thomas Crow.

Creator:: Crow, Thomas E., 1948–
Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: vii, 184 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

37. Off limits : 40 Artangel projects.

Date:: 2002
Physical Description:: 256 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

38. The independent eye [videorecording] : an open discussion moderated by Angus Trumble.

Date:: 2010
Physical Description:: 1 videodisc (DVD) (65 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Collection:: Reference Library

39. British and Irish art, 1945-1951 : from war to festival / Adrian Clark.

Creator:: Clark, Adrian
Date:: 2010
Physical Description:: 234 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

40. Beyond frontiers : contemporary British art by artists of South Asian descent / edited by Amal Ghosh and Juginder Lamba.

Date:: 2001
Physical Description:: 279 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

41. Codex:Crusade.

Creator:: Brennan, Tim, 1966–
Date:: 2004
Physical Description:: 110 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

42. Prints : modern british, international, contemporary : 22 March - 26 March ... London Original Print Fair [and] 28 March - 22 April ... Osborne Samuel.

Date:: 2006
Physical Description:: 60 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

43. "History is an art" : selections from the Paul Oppé Archive : drawing room displays 30 October 2023 - 2 February 2024 / display and booklet coordinated by Bryony Botwright- Rance with help from Daisy Dickens, Hannah Jones, and Anthony Tino.

Creator:: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Date:: [2023]
Physical Description:: 44 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

44. Modern art, Britain and the Great War : witnessing, testimony, and remembrance / Sue Malvern.

Creator:: Malvern, Sue, 1951–
Date:: 2004
Physical Description:: vii, 233 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28X23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. Gilbert & George : obsessions & compulsions / Robin Dutt.

2. Good bye to London : radical art & politics in the 70's.

3. The battle for realism : figurative art in Britain during the Cold War, 1945-60 / James Hyman.

4. The women who shaped modern art in Britain / James Scott.

5. The private lives of pictures : art at home in Britain,1800-1940 / Nicholas Tromans.

6. Patrick Procktor : art and life / Ian Massey.

7. Panic attack! : art in the punk years / edited by Mark Sladen and Ariella Yedgar.

8. Forced journeys : artists in exile in Britain c.1933-45 : Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art, 21 January-19 April 2009 / [edited by Sarah MacDougall and Rachel Dickson].

9. This is tomorrow : twentieth-century Britain and its artists / Michael Bird.

10. The cultural devolution : art in Britain in the late Twentieth Century / Neil Mulholland.

11. Face to face : British self-portraits in the twentieth century / Philip Vann.

12. The British Council Collection : 1984-1994.

13. Norman Garstin : Irishman & Newlyn artist / Richard Pryke.

14. Imaging migration in post-war Britain : artists of Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese heritage / Beccy Kennedy-Schtyk.

15. British art and the First World War, 1914-1924 / James Fox (Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge).

16. Studio lives : architect, art and artist in 20th-century Britain / Louise Campbell.

17. The Turner Prize : twenty years / Virginia Button.

18. Artrage! : the story of the BritArt revolution / Elizabeth Fullerton.

19. As found : the discovery of the ordinary / edited by Claude Lichtenstein, Thomas Schregenberger.

20. Bad behaviour : from the Arts Council Collection.

21. Artists making landscapes in post-war Britain / Margaret Garlake.

22. Contemporary art in the United Kingdom / edited by John Slyce, Phoebe Adler.

23. Out of the ivory tower : the independent group and popular culture / Anne Massey.

24. Prints : modern british, international, contemporary : 23 - 27 April ... London Original Print Fair [and] 30 April - 17 May ... Osborne Samuel.

25. Confronting dominant tendencies in the contemporary art world [videorecording] : an open discussion moderated by Angus Trumble.

26. The mystery of appearance : conversations between ten British post-war painters / Catherine Lampert, Tom Hunt.

27. War tourisms : "Englishness", art and the first World War / Sue Malvern.

28. British art in the cultural field, 1939-69 / edited by Lisa Tickner and David Peters Corbett.

29. A crisis of brilliance : five young British artists and the Great War / David Boyd Haycock.

30. Liberation begins in the imagination : writings on Caribbean-British art / edited by David A. Bailey and Allison Thompson.

31. Art without frontiers : the history of the British Council, visual arts, and a changing world / Annebella Pollen.

32. 20th-century British art.

33. The art of brutalism : rescuing hope from catastrophe in 1950s Britain / Ben Highmore.

34. Performance and spectatorship in Edwardian art writing / Sophie Hatchwell.

35. British artists at work / photographs, Amanda Eliasch ; texts Gemma De Cruz ; with additional material by Kay Hartenstein-Saatchi and Martin Maloney ; original concept by Franca Sozzani.

36. The hidden mod in modern art : London 1957-1969 / Thomas Crow.

37. Off limits : 40 Artangel projects.

38. The independent eye [videorecording] : an open discussion moderated by Angus Trumble.

39. British and Irish art, 1945-1951 : from war to festival / Adrian Clark.

40. Beyond frontiers : contemporary British art by artists of South Asian descent / edited by Amal Ghosh and Juginder Lamba.

41. Codex:Crusade.

42. Prints : modern british, international, contemporary : 22 March - 26 March ... London Original Print Fair [and] 28 March - 22 April ... Osborne Samuel.

43. "History is an art" : selections from the Paul Oppé Archive : drawing room displays 30 October 2023 - 2 February 2024 / display and booklet coordinated by Bryony Botwright- Rance with help from Daisy Dickens, Hannah Jones, and Anthony Tino.

44. Modern art, Britain and the Great War : witnessing, testimony, and remembrance / Sue Malvern.