{"title":"Books by David Boyd Haycock","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781901192650","title":"Augustus John \u0026 the First Crisis of Brilliance","description":"Augustus John \u0026amp; the First Crisis of Brilliance tells the story of a remarkable generation and its artistic achievements. Accompanying Piano Nobile’s exhibition of the same title, the publication explores the artistic networks around Augustus John before the First World War. John was closely acquainted with many of his highly talented contemporaries and this publication considers his relationship to Jacob Epstein, James Dickson Innes, Gwen John, Henry Lamb, Derwent Lees, Wyndham Lewis and William Orpen. The publication includes an introductory essay by Dr David Boyd Haycock discussing Augustus John and the notion of genius. A selection of over forty paintings, drawings and sculptures illuminates some of the key themes at play in John’s milieu, and each work is accompanied by thoroughly researched catalogue entries by Dr Haycock. Themes and subjects include friendship and family portraits, the muses Dorelia McNeill and Euphemia Lamb, and the landscapes of Wales, Provence and Ireland.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308241596789,"sku":"9781901192650","price":60.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781901192650_d16dbbf7-f312-4519-8a78-032f8b20bf8d.jpg?v=1786029588"},{"product_id":"9781848226579","title":"Brilliant Destiny","description":"Considered by John Singer Sargent to be the best British draughtsman since the Renaissance, Augustus John was the first of the British ‘             Post-Impressionists’             . Such was his importance that Wyndham Lewis called the ten years up to 1914 ‘             the Augustan decade’             . Virginia Woolf wrote in 1921 that ‘             The age of Augustus John was dawning’             . Handsome, unconventional and full of brilliant promise and Bohemian spirit, John was the man almost every young British art student wanted to emulate. This book reveals why, telling his extraordinary story from his birth in south Wales in 1878 through to the end of his youth in the closing stages of the First World War.Interweaving his biography are the personalities who surrounded John, and the book looks at their influence on him, and his upon them. They include his fellow students at the Slade School of Art –              his sister Gwen John and future wife Ida Nettleship, and his friends William Orpen, Ambrose McEvoy, Spencer Gore and Percy Wyndham Lewis.This book is a long overdue, new interpretation of this singular figure, who was both at the heart of the British artistic milieu, and yet set apart from its movements and manifestos.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308364280181,"sku":"9781848226579","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781848226579_8205216f-ef69-465a-bc7f-3c6ad3129866.jpg?v=1786029026"},{"product_id":"9781908699312","title":"I am Spain","description":"\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308366967157,"sku":"9781908699312","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781908699312_b2d0ed4e-a939-4508-980f-be1fd9588f35.jpg?v=1786029752"},{"product_id":"art-quake-1910","title":"Art-Quake, 1910","description":null,"brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57492318552437,"sku":"9781913083915","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781913083915.jpg?v=1786529153"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-david-boyd-haycock.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}