A Paradise Lost: The Neo-Romantic Imagination in Britain 1935-55

From the late 1930s through to the 1950s a number of British artists, writers, photographers and film makers produced a new kind of Romantic art. While it looked back to a 19th century tradition of ‘visionary’ art – to William Blake and to certain styles of landscape panting, it also drew upon the continental Modernist art of Picasso, Miro, Rouault and Masson. This exhibition examined the themes and locations, the imagination of this Neo-Romantic style from the Pastoral as genre to an altogether more violent view of Nature.Published in association with the Barbican Art Gallery. Includes essays by Andrew Crozier, Nannette Aldred, Angela Weight, and Ian Jeffrey. Foreword by Jane Alison and John Hoole, editor's preface, selected show more bibliography, acknowledgments and list of lenders. show less