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About the book >.>.> The art of Martyn Brewster takes its place within two great histories. The first is the grand and complex tradition of European Romantic and post-Romantic landscape painting. This contains within it (to identify elements that can be seen to have fed most directly into Brewster’s work) the great and radical breakthroughs to expressivity of Turner and Constable the densely atmospheric realism of Courbet the brilliant efflor- escences of French Impressionism and post-Impressionism including the late Monet of the lily pond paintings and the psychologically-charged colourism of Northern artists such as Caspar David Friedrich van Gogh Nolde and de Sta?l. The second is the dynamic and richly complicated phenomenon of post-war painterly abstraction with its interplay of American and European developments its spiritual and mythic pretensions on the one hand its claims to expressive authenticity on another its intent to a symbolic transformation of the visible world on a third and its ambition in all those cases to achieve a self-contained objective autonomy. It is true of course that in some of its manifestations this latter line has grown out of the former and that many of the under- lying themes that animated nineteenth- and early twentieth-century landscape painting have found their modern expression in non-figurative art. This is not to suggest that Brewster is essentially a landscape painter for he has followed a resolutely principled course in non-figuration making paintings (and prints) that insist upon their material self-sufficiency so to speak as objects in the world rather than as pictures of the world. But it is certainly the case that until recently there has persisted in his work a great deal of reference to natural phenomena frankly registered in the titles he gives his paintings. (LL)