Helen Saunders: Modernist Rebel spo-default

Helen Saunders: Modernist Rebel spo-defaultThis welcome catalogue accompanies The Courtauld's display of the work of Helen Saunders (18851963), the first monographic exhibition devoted to the artist in over 25 years. After years of obscurity, Helen Saunders: Modernist Rebel reconsiders her work as an important part of the story of British modernism. One of the first British artists to pursue abstraction, Saunders was one of only two women to join the Vorticists, the radical but short lived art

Have your sense of art history overturned

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Author: Linda Nochlin

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Vincent van Gogh himself believed that his portraits constituted his most important works

double-sided concertina card has a space for writing your own message in the panels beneath the dancers

Her extraordinary drawings capture both the dynamism of modern urban life and the horrors of mechanised warfare

His painting was a touchstone for Samuel Beckett as much as Henri Matisse

Wilde foresaw that criticism would have an increasingly important role as the need to make sense of what we see increases with the complexities of modern life

Edited by Coralie Malissard

Illustrations: Cressida Bell