{"product_id":"9781408889688","title":"Circles and Squares : The Lives and Art of the Hampstead Modernists","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Maclean, Caroline, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 18\/02\/2021,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 320 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBiography: arts \u0026amp; entertainment \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781408889688\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA spellbinding portrait of the Hampstead Modernists, threading together the lives, loves, rivalries and ambitions of a group of artists at the heart of an international avant-garde. Hampstead in the 1930s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this peaceful, verdant London suburb, Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson have embarked on a love affair - a passion that will launch an era-defining art movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her chronicle of the exhilarating rise and fall of British Modernism, Caroline Maclean captures the dazzling circle drawn into Hepworth and Nicholson's wake: among them Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Herbert Read, and famed emigres Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, and Piet Mondrian, blown in on the winds of change sweeping across Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiving and working within a few streets of their Parkhill Road studios, the artists form Unit One, a cornerstone of the Modernist movement which would bring them international renown.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on previously unpublished archive material, Caroline Maclean's electrifying Circles and Squares brings the work, loves and rivalries of the Hampstead Modernists to life as never before, capturing a brief moment in time when a new way of living seemed possible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnited in their belief in art's power to change the world, her cast of trailblazers radiate hope and ambition during one of the darkest chapters of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37991532888217,"sku":"9781408889688","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781408889688.jpg?v=1612372203","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781408889688","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}