Hughie O'Donoghue

Jo Baring is a curator and writer and Director of the Ingram Collection of Modern British and Contemporary Art. Martin Gayford is an art critic and the author of biographical studies of Michelangelo, John Constable and Vincent van Gogh. Lee Hallman is an art historian and curator who lectures and publishes frequently on modern and contemporary art, particularly in the field of 20th-century British painting. Thomas Marks is a writer and art critic and the former editor of Apollo magazine. Tom Paulin is a poet, critic, playwright and lecturer. Tanja Pirsig-Marshall is Deputy Director and Head of Exhibitions, Collection and Research at the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster.

• Foreword; Preface; 1 ‘The Mud that is Paint’: Hughie O’Donoghue and the tradition of painting; 2 ‘The Essence of the Past’: History, Identity, Memory; 3 ‘Uncovering and Covering’: sources and traces; 4 ‘The Laboratory and the Library’: Painting, Literature and Poetry; Hughie O’Donoghue: Selected Writing; Plates; Autobiographical Notes; Notes; Biography; Exhibitions and Collections; Index