LOOKING TO SEA (HB)

This book considers ten pivotal artworks created between 1912 and 2015 that open a window onto big ideas including modernism and the sublime, the impact of the world wars and colonialism, and issues like the environment and nationhood. Featuring Vanessa Bell's Studland Beach, one of the first modernist paintings in Britain, Paul Nash's work bearing the scars of his experience in the trenches, and Martin Parr's photographs of seaside resorts in the 1980s, which raised controversial questions of class.