Stanley Spencer
Subtitle: an English vision
By: [essay by] Fiona MacCarthy.
Contributors: MacCarthy, Fiona.; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.; Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico); California Palace of the Legion of Honor.
Publisher: Yale University Press in association with the British Council and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Published: 1997
Place of publication: [New Haven, Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Spencer, Stanley, -- Exhibitions; Figurative painting, British -- Exhibitions
Description: Stanley Spencer, a central figure in the current revival of European figurative painting, is among the most important English painters of the twentieth century. In this book, Fiona MacCarthy investigates Spencer's life, sets his work in its cultural context, and emphasises the links between his life and his paintings.

With the extensive commentary - edited from Spencer's own writings - on each of the stunning reproductions of Spencer's paintings, this volume provides a comprehensive account of a profoundly original artist and his work.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-194).
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 9 Oct. 1997 - 11 Jan. 1998; Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, 19 Feb. - 10 May 1998; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 8 June - 6 Sept. 1998.