Collection: Reference Library / Language: English / Work Type: history / Subject Period: 20th century

1. The tiger in the smoke : art and culture in post-war Britain / Lynda Nead.

Creator:: Nead, Lynda
Date:: [2017]
Physical Description:: vii, 407 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

2. Twentieth-century color photographs : identification and care / Sylvie Pénichon.

Creator:: Pénichon, Sylvie
Date:: [2013]
Physical Description:: xv, 344 pages : colored illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

3. The Green family of papermakers and Hayle Mill / Maureen P. Green.

Creator:: Green, Maureen, 1949–
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: xiii, [1], 267, [5] pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits (some color) ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

4. Tadema Gallery London : jewellery from the 1860s to 1960s / Beatriz Chadour-Sampson, Sonya Newell-Smith.

Creator:: Chadour-Sampson, Anna Beatriz, 1953–
Date:: [2021]
Physical Description:: 527 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

5. Graphic assembly : montage, media, and experimental architecture in the 1960s' / Craig Buckley.

Creator:: Buckley, Craig
Date:: 2019
Physical Description:: 390 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

6. A survey of the avant-garde in Britain / [editor: Rosetta Brooks].

Date:: [1972]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations (black and white) ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

7. Dialectical materialism : aspects of British sculpture since the 1960s.

Creator:: Vernon, Jonathan
Date:: 2019
Physical Description:: 53 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

8. Wrappers delight / Jonny Trunk ; foreword, Jarvis Cocker.

Creator:: Trunk, Jonny
Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: 237 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

9. Bacon in Moscow / James Birch.

Creator:: Birch, James (Art dealer and gallery owner)
Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: 204 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

10. The art of brutalism : rescuing hope from catastrophe in 1950s Britain / Ben Highmore.

Creator:: Highmore, Ben, 1961–
Date:: [2017]
Physical Description:: 297 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

11. A history of the twentieth century in 100 maps / Tim Bryars and Tom Harper.

Creator:: Bryars, Tim
Date:: 2014
Physical Description:: 240 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

12. Denmark in Britain : architecture, design and lifestyle, 1945-1970 / Bruce Peter.

Creator:: Peter, Bruce
Date:: [2023]
Physical Description:: xv, 259 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

13. Parallel lives : eight women artists / Gill Clarke and Steve Marshall.

Creator:: Clarke, Gill, 1955–
Date:: 2023
Physical Description:: 112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

14. Sketches from an unquiet country : Canadian graphic satire, 1840-1940 / edited by Dominic Hardy, Annie Gérin, and Lora Senechal Carney.

Date:: [2018]
Physical Description:: viii, 304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

15. George the faithful : the life and times of George V "the people's king" 1865-1956 / edited and with a preface by Philip Gibbs.

Date:: [1936]
Physical Description:: 534 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

16. Nigel Henderson's streets : photographs of London's East End 1949-53 / edited by Clive Coward.

Creator:: Henderson, Nigel, 1917–1985
Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: 119 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

17. Chronophobia : on time in the art of the 1960's / Pamela M. Lee.

Creator:: Lee, Pamela M
Date:: 2006
Physical Description:: xxv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

18. Inquisitive eyes : Slade painters in Edwardian Wessex / Gwen Yarker.

Creator:: Yarker, Gwen
Date:: 2016
Physical Description:: 130 pages : illustrations (chiefly in color), portraits, map ; 27 x 21 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

19. British furniture 1820 to 1920 : the luxury market / Christopher Payne.

Creator:: Payne, Christopher, 1948–
Date:: [2023]
Physical Description:: 575 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

20. The shape of things : photographs from Robert B. Menschel / Quentin Bajac ; with an essay by Sarah Hermanson Meister.

Creator:: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Date:: [2016]
Physical Description:: 152 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Coplans Trust.

21. The rainbow's gravity : colour, materiality and British modernity / Kirsty Sinclair Dootson.

Creator:: Dootson, Kirsty Sinclair
Date:: 2023
Physical Description:: vii, 224 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

22. Victorian and Edwardian children from old photographs / [compiled by] A.J. and D.K. Pierce.

Date:: 1980
Physical Description:: approximately 100 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

23. Mass photography : collective histories of everyday life / Annebella Pollen.

Creator:: Pollen, Annebella
Date:: 2016
Physical Description:: xiii, 245 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

24. Radical Women : Jessica Dismorr and her contemporaries / Alicia Foster.

Creator:: Foster, Alicia
Date:: 2019
Physical Description:: 128 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

25. London's arts labs and the 60s avant-garde / David Curtis.

Creator:: Curtis, David, 1942–
Date:: [2020]
Physical Description:: vi, 170 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

26. Kenneth Clark : looking for civilisation / [edited by] Chris Stephens and John-Paul Stonard ; with David Alan Mellor, Peter T.J. Rumley and John Wyver.

Date:: [2014]
Physical Description:: 160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

27. The story of my life / Augustus J.C. Hare.

Creator:: Hare, Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert), 1834–1903
Date:: 1896
Physical Description:: 6 volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

28. Art labor, sex politics : feminist effects in 1970s British art and performance / Siona Wilson.

Creator:: Wilson, Siona, 1970–
Date:: [2015]
Physical Description:: xxix, 288 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

29. Women for peace : banners from Greenham Common / Charlotte Dew.

Creator:: Dew, Charlotte
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

30. Voysey's birds and animals / Karen Livingstone.

Creator:: Livingstone, Karen
Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: 143 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

31. Gerald Laing, 1936-2011 : a retrospective.

Creator:: Laing, Gerald, 1936–2011
Date:: [2016]
Physical Description:: 94 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

32. The lawn road flats : spies, writers and artists / David Burke.

Creator:: Burke, David (Historian of intelligence and international relations)
Date:: 2019
Physical Description:: xx, 271 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

33. Art without frontiers : the history of the British Council, visual arts, and a changing world / Annebella Pollen.

Creator:: Pollen, Annebella
Date:: 2023
Physical Description:: 408 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

34. The Edwardians and their houses : the new life of old England / Timothy Brittain-Catlin.

Creator:: Brittain-Catlin, Timothy
Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: 224 pages : illustrations (color and black and white) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

35. Art, cybernetics and pedagogy in post-war Britain : Roy Ascott's Groundcourse / Kate Sloan.

Creator:: Sloan, Kate, 1979–
Date:: 2019
Physical Description:: x, 247 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

36. Before the Arts Council : campaigns for state funding of the arts in Britain 1934-44 / Howard Webber.

Creator:: Webber, Howard
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: ix, 251 pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

37. The urban working class in Britain, 1830-1914 / edited by Andrew August.

Date:: 2013
Physical Description:: 4 v ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

38. Great escapes / Barbara A. Bond.

Creator:: Bond, Barbara A.
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: 263 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits (some color), facsimiles ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

39. Festival of Britain 1951 / Paul Rennie.

Creator:: Rennie, Paul
Date:: 2007
Physical Description:: 127 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

40. C.F.A. Voysey : arts & crafts designer / Karen Livingstone ; with Max Donnelly and Linda Parry.

Creator:: Livingstone, Karen
Date:: 2016
Physical Description:: 320 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

41. Sites of interchange : modernism, politics and culture between Britain and Germany, 1919-1955 / editor, Lucy Wasensteiner.

Date:: [2022]
Physical Description:: xix, 312 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

42. London, 1870-1914 : a city at its zenith / Andrew Saint.

Creator:: Saint, Andrew
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 231 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

43. Picturing India : people, places and the world of the East India Company / John McAleer.

Creator:: McAleer, John
Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: 217 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color), map (some color) ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

44. Miracles in concrete : structural engineer August Komendant / edited by Carl-Dag Lige.

Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: 431 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

45. Imaging migration in post-war Britain : artists of Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese heritage / Beccy Kennedy-Schtyk.

Creator:: Kennedy-Schtyk, Beccy
Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: xiv, 217 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

46. Colony Room Club, 1948-2008 : a history of Bohemian Soho / by Sophie Parkin.

Creator:: Parkin, Sophie
Date:: [2013]
Physical Description:: 265 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

47. Roelof Louw and British sculpture since the 1960s / Joy Sleeman.

Creator:: Sleeman, Joy
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

48. Performance and spectatorship in Edwardian art writing / Sophie Hatchwell.

Creator:: Hatchwell, Sophie
Date:: [2019]
Physical Description:: xi, 126 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

49. The Windsor years ; the life of Edward, as Prince of Wales, King, and Duke of Windsor / Text by Lord Kinross. Photos. selected by the editors.

Creator:: Kinross, Patrick Balfour, Baron, 1904–1976
Date:: [1967]
Physical Description:: 303 pages : illustrations, coat of arms, facsimile, portraits ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

50. London's new scene : art and culture in the 1960s / Lisa Tickner.

Creator:: Tickner, Lisa
Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: ix, 414 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. The tiger in the smoke : art and culture in post-war Britain / Lynda Nead.

2. Twentieth-century color photographs : identification and care / Sylvie Pénichon.

3. The Green family of papermakers and Hayle Mill / Maureen P. Green.

4. Tadema Gallery London : jewellery from the 1860s to 1960s / Beatriz Chadour-Sampson, Sonya Newell-Smith.

5. Graphic assembly : montage, media, and experimental architecture in the 1960s' / Craig Buckley.

6. A survey of the avant-garde in Britain / [editor: Rosetta Brooks].

7. Dialectical materialism : aspects of British sculpture since the 1960s.

8. Wrappers delight / Jonny Trunk ; foreword, Jarvis Cocker.

9. Bacon in Moscow / James Birch.

10. The art of brutalism : rescuing hope from catastrophe in 1950s Britain / Ben Highmore.

11. A history of the twentieth century in 100 maps / Tim Bryars and Tom Harper.

12. Denmark in Britain : architecture, design and lifestyle, 1945-1970 / Bruce Peter.

13. Parallel lives : eight women artists / Gill Clarke and Steve Marshall.

14. Sketches from an unquiet country : Canadian graphic satire, 1840-1940 / edited by Dominic Hardy, Annie Gérin, and Lora Senechal Carney.

15. George the faithful : the life and times of George V "the people's king" 1865-1956 / edited and with a preface by Philip Gibbs.

16. Nigel Henderson's streets : photographs of London's East End 1949-53 / edited by Clive Coward.

17. Chronophobia : on time in the art of the 1960's / Pamela M. Lee.

18. Inquisitive eyes : Slade painters in Edwardian Wessex / Gwen Yarker.

19. British furniture 1820 to 1920 : the luxury market / Christopher Payne.

20. The shape of things : photographs from Robert B. Menschel / Quentin Bajac ; with an essay by Sarah Hermanson Meister.

21. The rainbow's gravity : colour, materiality and British modernity / Kirsty Sinclair Dootson.

22. Victorian and Edwardian children from old photographs / [compiled by] A.J. and D.K. Pierce.

23. Mass photography : collective histories of everyday life / Annebella Pollen.

24. Radical Women : Jessica Dismorr and her contemporaries / Alicia Foster.

25. London's arts labs and the 60s avant-garde / David Curtis.

26. Kenneth Clark : looking for civilisation / [edited by] Chris Stephens and John-Paul Stonard ; with David Alan Mellor, Peter T.J. Rumley and John Wyver.

27. The story of my life / Augustus J.C. Hare.

28. Art labor, sex politics : feminist effects in 1970s British art and performance / Siona Wilson.

29. Women for peace : banners from Greenham Common / Charlotte Dew.

30. Voysey's birds and animals / Karen Livingstone.

31. Gerald Laing, 1936-2011 : a retrospective.

32. The lawn road flats : spies, writers and artists / David Burke.

33. Art without frontiers : the history of the British Council, visual arts, and a changing world / Annebella Pollen.

34. The Edwardians and their houses : the new life of old England / Timothy Brittain-Catlin.

35. Art, cybernetics and pedagogy in post-war Britain : Roy Ascott's Groundcourse / Kate Sloan.

36. Before the Arts Council : campaigns for state funding of the arts in Britain 1934-44 / Howard Webber.

37. The urban working class in Britain, 1830-1914 / edited by Andrew August.

38. Great escapes / Barbara A. Bond.

39. Festival of Britain 1951 / Paul Rennie.

40. C.F.A. Voysey : arts & crafts designer / Karen Livingstone ; with Max Donnelly and Linda Parry.

41. Sites of interchange : modernism, politics and culture between Britain and Germany, 1919-1955 / editor, Lucy Wasensteiner.

42. London, 1870-1914 : a city at its zenith / Andrew Saint.

43. Picturing India : people, places and the world of the East India Company / John McAleer.

44. Miracles in concrete : structural engineer August Komendant / edited by Carl-Dag Lige.

45. Imaging migration in post-war Britain : artists of Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese heritage / Beccy Kennedy-Schtyk.

46. Colony Room Club, 1948-2008 : a history of Bohemian Soho / by Sophie Parkin.

47. Roelof Louw and British sculpture since the 1960s / Joy Sleeman.

48. Performance and spectatorship in Edwardian art writing / Sophie Hatchwell.

49. The Windsor years ; the life of Edward, as Prince of Wales, King, and Duke of Windsor / Text by Lord Kinross. Photos. selected by the editors.

50. London's new scene : art and culture in the 1960s / Lisa Tickner.