Studio Voices

Michael Bird is an author, art historian and broadcaster who has written widely on 20th-century British art. His previous books for Lund Humphries are Sandra Blow (2005), Bryan Wynter (2010), The St Ives Artists: A Biography of Place and Time (2008 and 2016), Lynn Chadwick (2014) and George Fullard: Sculpture and Survival (2017).

• Acknowledgements; Foreword by Cathy Courtney; Introduction: The Kitchen Sink Too; 1 Home is Where we Start From: Artists as Children and Parents; 2 This is What I Want to Do: First Steps in Art; 3 The Sound of Bombs Falling: A Century of War; 4 Self-propelled People: Going to Art School; 5 Strange Calm and Turbulence: On Painting; 6 It has Substance: On Sculpture; 7 The Strength of an Idea: Conceptual and Performance Art; 8 The Work Completes: On Being an Artist; Short Biographies; Further Reading; Index

‘40 or so artists talk about making art the centre of a life: their different childhoods, different experiences of war and of love, of parenting, and of art institutions. With Michael Bird’s insightful commentary, Studio Voices is an exhilarating testimony to human creativity. A deeply pleasurable book.’ - Alison Light