Thirties British Art and Design before the War Arts Council of Great Britain, Victoria and Albert Museum, Hayward Gallery Arts Council of Great Britain 1979 28cm English language  320 pages softback

Thirties, an exhibition organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain in collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum. Hayward Gallery 25 October 1979 - 13 January 1980. Incredibly thorough exhibition with accompanying catalogue which is still the best overall documentation of 1930s British Art and Design. Good bibliography lots of illustrations. Contained the following sections and more: 

Silver and Metalwork: Sibyl Dunlop, HG Murphy, Frank Dobson, Eric Gill, Harold Stabler Keith Murray, Omar Ramsden, Dunhill designs, Raymond Loewy, Duncan Grant, Frank Dobson, Adie Brothers, Christian Barman, Misha Black, Reco Capey, Bernard Cuzner, 

Textiles: Marion Dorn etc, E McKnight Kauffer, Marian Pepler, Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Marianne Straub, Ashley Havinden, Enid Marx, Donald Brothers, Edinburgh Weavers, Foxton Ltd, Ronald Grierson, James Templeton, Allan Walton

Graphics: Barnett Freedman, Kauffer, Ben Nicholson, Hans Schleger, Graham Sutherland, Tom Eckersley, Edward Bawden, Ronald Grierson, Francis Bacon, 

Furniture: Serge Chermayeff PEL, Wells Coates, Ekco, Betty Joel, Heals, Gordon Russell, Raymond McGrath, Maurice Adams, Denham Maclaren, Gerald Summers, Makers of Simple Furniture, Marcel Breuer, Isokon, Dunn’s, Ambrose Heal, Heal and Son, Romney Green, Peter Waals, Eric Gill, Oliver Hill, Maurice Adams, Maxwell Fry

Ceramics: T Acland Fennemore, Mycock, Eric Ravilious, Keith Murray, Wedgwood, Royal Doulton, Noke, John Adams, Carter Stabler Adams Poole Pottery, AE Gray, Susie Cooper, Eric Slater, Shelley Potteries, Laura Knight for Clarice Cliff, Norman Wilson, Clarice Cliff, John Skeaping, Bourne Denby, Vera Huggins, Frank Brangwyn, Edward Bawden, Victor Skellern, Vanessa Bell, Michael Cardew, Sam Haile, Henry Hammond, Bernard Leach, William Staite Murray, Katherine Pleydell Bouverie, Charles Vyse, 

Glass: Paul Nash, Keith Murray, Stevens and Williams, Powell, Eric Ravilious, Clyne Farquarson, Gray-Stan glass, Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland,  James Powell, Barnaby Powell, Stuart and Sons.

Painting and Sculpture: Duncan Grant, Wyndham Lewis, Augustus John, William Nicholson, William Roberts, Meredith Frampton,  Stanley Spencer, Eric Ravilious, Christopher Wood, Edward Bawden, Winifred Nicholson, Edward Burra, Francis Bacon, Ceri Richards, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, John Piper, Ivon Hitchens, Graham Sutherland, John Piper, Merlyn Evans, Leon Underwood, John Farleigh, Blair Hughes Stanton, Clare Leighton, Gertrude Hermes, Eric Gill, Ravilious, Joan Hassall, Agnes Miller Parker, Paul Nash, Bawden, Wadsworth, Richard Beck, Paul Nash, LS Lowry, James Jarche, Bill Brandt, Edward Malindine, Fougasse, W Heath Robinson, Austin Cooper.

Architecure Lutyens, Owen Williams, Raymond McGrath, Oliver Hill, Wells Coates, Breuer, Lubetkin, Wells Caotes, Erno Goldfinger, William Lescaze, E Maxwell Fry, Walter Gropius, FRS Yorke, Lasdun, Connell Ward Lucas, Marcel Breuer, Eric Mendelsohn and others.

Condition: Shelf wear to the cover. Some age toning to the pages especially the edges otherwise good. 

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