A Paradise Lost: The Neo-romantic Imagination in Britain, 1925-55

144p, profusely illustrated in full colour. Laminated, illustrated card covers.  4to.  Some gentle edge wear to card covers, a litte rubbed on corners.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. For more than a decade around the 1940s, British art, letters and culture were dominated by the extraordinary style of neo-romanticism.  Diverse and challenging, the movement fixed its gaze beyond surrealism to the future, but a future written in terms of the past - a Britain of land, myth and fantasy.  This book examines the upsurge of this style.  It looks at the work of some now neglected artists - John Minton, John Caxton, Leslie Hurry and Cecil Collins - the young romantics of the 1940s - together with more celebrated painters such as Graham Sutherland and John Piper are re-assessed in Dr Mellor's text; and includes essays on the poetry, film and criticism associated with the movement.