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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. Small crease on one corner otherwise would be like new. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Who was Joan Eardley? Was she a painter of social realism working in parallel with the English Kitchen Sink School or was she Scotland’s answer to the Cobra a ists of continental Europe or America’s Jackson Pollc and Willem de Kooning? Eardley was a strong. p sionate painter who was totally engaged in depicti the life forces around her everything from children nature. She herself was a child of the Second Wor War and saw in Glasgow’s shattered tenement stre life signs of richness among the decay. Eardley’s de love of humanity was manifest in images of the res ience of the human spirit among the poor the old ar the very young. Such was the impact of her painting that she was perceived as a young member of the pos war British avant garde and her works were bought b galleries throughout Britain. Additionally her landscap paintings mostly of Catterline on the north-east coas of Scotland saw Eardley using techniques in tune wit Abstract Expressionism from America and Tachism from Europe. This expressive abstraction drew praise in her lifetime in London as well as Scotland. By the end o her short life Douglas Hall then Keeper of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art was stating that we had lost a painter of international stature. (SP)