This lavishly illustrated book examines artists' portrayals of farming and farmed landscapes from 1900 to the present and is published to accompany an exhibition at St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery. Farming accounts for almost 70% of land use in England, so to portray the countryside was to portray agriculture landscapes that were bound up with notions of Englishness despite an increasingly urbanised population. Artists capturing contemporary life in the countryside during this period also chronicled massive change in farming techniques and the appearance of rural England. The inter-war...

Artist as Witness explores the importance of the artist as eyewitness, providing insights not only into warfare, but also the impact of war on those involved and the communities affected.
The book will cover the First and Second World Wars, the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, a concentration camp, the Nuremberg Trials, and the war in Ukraine. Evocative works by both well-known artists (such as Paul Nash, C.R. Nevinson, Laura Knight, Evelyn Dunbar and Graham Sutherland) and lesser-known (Kaff Gerrard and Hilda Jillard) will encompass themes of ‘The Battlefield’ and ‘The Home Front’. ...