Contact
We welcome all feedback relating to this project.
For further information and enquiries about Paul Nash and his association with Dorset and
the Purbecks please email vicechancellor@aub.ac.uk
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This project was part funded by Arts University Bournemouth, a leading specialist arts university located in Dorset, UK
Books
Paul Gough, A Terrible Beauty: British Artists in the First World War, (Bristol: Sansom & Company, 2010).
The work of Britain’s war artists has been well documented, but Dr Paul Gough’s penetrating survey throws new light on their motivations, responses to the conflict and their unique, and widely varying, interpretations of the effects on the combatants. His book provides new insights into the work of the major and lesser-known artists of the First World War, including David Bomberg, Muirhead Bone, Sidney Jones, Henry Lamb, Adrian Hill, Paul Maze, John Nash, Paul Nash, Nevinson, Orpen, William Roberts, William Rothenstein, Stanley Spencer, Harold Williamson and Wyndham Lewis.
Magnificent images from the collection of The Imperial War Museum, Tate Britain and other public collections.
ISBN: 978-1-906593-00-1
Author(s): Paul Gough
Year published: November 2010
Publisher: Sansom & Company
Total Pages: 288
Illustrations: Illustrated in colour throughout
Paul Gough, Brothers in Arms: John and Paul Nash at War, (Bristol and London: Sansom & Company, 2014).
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When brothers John and Paul Nash held their first exhibition in 1913 at the Dorien Leigh Gallery in South Kensington, London they were regarded as equally talented and equally ambitious, even though it had been Paul who had studied at the Slade School of Art amongst an extraordinary cohort of young British artists, and John was regarded as an untutored youngster with a flair for capturing the essence of the English landscape.
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As war broke their fortunes diverted: Paul achieved instant recognition as an Official War Artist, while John withstood the terrors of the trenches as an infantryman. In 1918 they came together again, painting side by side in an old herb barn to conjure up their searing visions of the Western Front. Once these were finished and exhibited to wide acclaim, they went their different ways.
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This book explores the work of the two brothers; their family roots in London and Buckinghamshire; the difficult and dark days of their schooling; their divergent early careers and time in the trenches; the moments when they came together to share a show or studio, and also the long periods where their fortune fared so differently, Paul to achieve international recognition as a Modern artist as well as a profoundly English one, while John went quietly about his southern haunts painting the countryside, studying plants and diligently engraving dozens of illustrations.
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Developing themes first explored in his book about British war artists, A Terrible Beauty, Paul Gough relates the fascinating story of the Nash brothers, illustrators, soldiers, and artists.
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Published to accompany an exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
ISBN: 9781908326522
Author(s): Paul Gough
Year published: July 2014
Publisher: Sansom & Company
Total Pages: 128
Illustrations: Illustrated in colour throughout