Paint and Prejudice.

Nevinson (C.R.W.)

Paint and Prejudice.

With 32 gravure plates from the author's pictures at the end of the book.

Description: FIRST EDITION, some very faint spots to prelims, pp. [viii], 216 + Plates, 8vo, original magenta cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, corners a little bumped, edges with a few spots, endpapers spotted, the flyleaf with contemporary gift inscription, dustjacket lightly handled, chipped to corners and at head of backstrip panel with a small section missing at head of front panel, good

Publication Details: Methuen, 1937

Notes: The artist's memoir, giving a detailed account of his career among the leading artists and celebrities of his day, including his proselytising for Marinetti's Futurism and his time as an official war artist - avowedly forthright, Julian Freeman in the ODNB regards Nevinson's account as giving too much place to the latter quality in its title, being 'marked and marred by a strong undercurrent of confrontational right-wing xenophobia'.

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