Laura Knight av Anthony Spira, Fay Blanchard

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<b>LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM MB BERGER PRIZE FOR BRITISH ART HISTORY 2022</b><b>A major survey of Dame Laura Knight, first female Royal Academician and popular British artist of the </b><b>20th century.</b>Laura Knight (1877¿1970) was one of the most famous and popular English artists of the twentieth century. She was the first woman to have a solo exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, in 1965. In the following decades, her realist style of painting fell out of fashion and her work become largely overlooked. Anew generation has rediscovered her work, finding a contemporary resonance in her depictions of women at work, of people from marginalized communities and her contributions as a war artist.This beautifully illustrated book, which accompanied a major exhibition at MK Gallery, provides an overview of Knight¿s illustrious career: from her training at Nottingham Art School at the age of 13 and her time in North Yorkshire and Cornwall, to her visits to traveller communities and a s