Lynne Green is an art historian whose specialist fields are British modernism and contemporary art. She was the co-founder and former editor of Contemporary Art (later Contemporary) magazine and was formerly an exhibition organiser at the Hayward Gallery before becoming curator of Southampton City Art Gallery. Her previous publications include Painting with Smoke: David Roberts Raku Potter (2000, revised edition 2009) and Yorkshire Sculpture Park: Landscape for Art (2008).

'...long overdue book...this meticulously researched, sumptuously illustrated publication is really a particular and personal history of British modern art;...This is a welcome addition to the critical writings on 20th-century British art and politics.' Galleries Magazine

• Contents: Editorial Note; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Foreword, Martin Kemp; Preface to the Second Edition; Prologue; 1 Childhood and the First Stirrings of Art; 2 Art College and a Wider World; 3 A Cornish Haven : The First Years of Freedom; 4 'Britain's Foremost Woman Abstract Painter'; 5 Variations and Meditations; 6 Completing the Circle; 7 Today is a Gift: Coda; Notes; Chronology; Works in Public and Corporate Collections; Bibliography; Index.

Lynne Green is an art historian whose specialist fields are British modernism and contemporary art. She was the co-founder and former editor of Contemporary Art (later Contemporary) magazine and was formerly an exhibition organiser at the Hayward Gallery before becoming curator of Southampton City Art Gallery. Her previous publications include Painting with Smoke: David Roberts Raku Potter (2000, revised edition 2009) and Yorkshire Sculpture Park: Landscape for Art (2008).

'...long overdue book...this meticulously researched, sumptuously illustrated publication is really a particular and personal history of British modern art;...This is a welcome addition to the critical writings on 20th-century British art and politics.' Galleries Magazine

• Contents: Editorial Note; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Foreword, Martin Kemp; Preface to the Second Edition; Prologue; 1 Childhood and the First Stirrings of Art; 2 Art College and a Wider World; 3 A Cornish Haven : The First Years of Freedom; 4 'Britain's Foremost Woman Abstract Painter'; 5 Variations and Meditations; 6 Completing the Circle; 7 Today is a Gift: Coda; Notes; Chronology; Works in Public and Corporate Collections; Bibliography; Index.

Lynne Green is an art historian whose specialist fields are British modernism and contemporary art. She was the co-founder and former editor of Contemporary Art (later Contemporary) magazine and was formerly an exhibition organiser at the Hayward Gallery before becoming curator of Southampton City Art Gallery. Her previous publications include Painting with Smoke: David Roberts Raku Potter (2000, revised edition 2009) and Yorkshire Sculpture Park: Landscape for Art (2008).

'...long overdue book...this meticulously researched, sumptuously illustrated publication is really a particular and personal history of British modern art;...This is a welcome addition to the critical writings on 20th-century British art and politics.' Galleries Magazine

• Contents: Editorial Note; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Foreword, Martin Kemp; Preface to the Second Edition; Prologue; 1 Childhood and the First Stirrings of Art; 2 Art College and a Wider World; 3 A Cornish Haven : The First Years of Freedom; 4 'Britain's Foremost Woman Abstract Painter'; 5 Variations and Meditations; 6 Completing the Circle; 7 Today is a Gift: Coda; Notes; Chronology; Works in Public and Corporate Collections; Bibliography; Index.