Details
132 pages. Hardback.
Book dimensions 290x215mm
Ford Madox Brown's fascinating realist painting entitled Work takes as its heroes a group of labourers laying water pipes in The Mount, Hampstead. This fully illustrated book tells the story behind Brown's masterpiece - its sources in popular art, its composition and its 'message', as well as its critical reception at the time and its impact on art in the twentieth century.
