Design: Paul Nash and John Nash - Hardcover

Webb, Brian; Skipwith, Peyton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851495193 ISBN 13: 9781851495191

Publisher: ACC Publishing Group, 2006

Synopsis

The brothers Paul and John Nash, in their very different ways, were a major influence on twentieth century British design. Paul Nash (1889-1946) is now recognised as the most significant war artist of the last century; John Nash (1893-1977) as a plantsman artist. Both worked as designers and as tutors at the Royal College of Art, Paul encouraging a generation of designer artists that included Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden and Enid Marx. As a committee member of the Design and Industries Association and President of the newly formed Society of Industrial Artists (now the Chartered Society of Designers) Paul promoted design as no less an art form than the fine arts of painting and sculpture. His clients included London Transport, Shell and Curwen Press and publishers the Nonesuch and Golden Cockerel Presses. John became well known for his Edward Lear influenced humorous illustrations and his superb plant drawings and wood engravings that illustrate innumerable books and publications. Paul Nash and

About this title

About the Author:

Peyton Skipwith retired as deputy managing director of The Fine Art Society in 2005, after forty-four years.

About this edition

• Publisher: ACC Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1851495193
• ISBN 13: 9781851495191
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96