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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In the 1930s before the more extreme forms of modernism belatedly bullied their way across the Channel (and then the Atlantic) Eurich did rather well with his individualist intense but visionary style of painting. He was influenced by those aspects of recent French art and thinking on art which were self-consciously primitive in form and expression. In his autobiography he remembers being shown photographs of early Greek carvings and Chinese and Indian sculpture for the first time and I realized that this was the Royal line of descent the feeble imitations of later Greek work being all I knew. I wasn’t even sure that Michelangelo was quite as fine now that I had seen these works of earlier civilizations”. But he seems to have absorbed all he required from current aesthetics via minimal contact with more active and cosmopolitan spirits. After the Great War the hitherto most “advanced painter in England Wyndham Lewis (one time Duce of the Vorticists) abandoned abstraction having experienced real-life extremism in the trenches and concluded that in art as in life there were limits “beyond which there was nothing”. He had fully assimilated Cubism in Paris as well as Futurism and even Expressionism but in contrast to his mostly subjectivist contemporaries he decided to paint and write ‘classically from the outside in aspirning to reveal the essence of things by describing their exterior with super-natural objectivity Ahead of his time in his modernism and now still more isolatedly so in his rejection of most of its tenets he eventually published a book on The Demon of Progress in the Arts (1954). (LL)