Review:
Looking Out: Welsh Painting, Social Class and International Context
by Peter Lord
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Peter Wakelin
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Looking Out: Welsh Painting, Social Class and International Context
by Peter Lord

by Peter Lord

Parthian, £40.00

Peter Lord has made a monumental contribution to knowledge about Welsh art in the past thirty years in the form of the Visual Culture of Wales project and, more recently, The Tradition. In his latest volume of essays he continues to fill gaps and expand on themes, especially with regard to artists and artworks that have been largely bypassed by both canonical art history and previous studies in Wales. It is good to learn more about them.

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About the author

Peter Wakelin’s most recent books are Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art and monographs on Charles Burton and Sally Moore. His edition of Miner’s Day by B.L. Coombes with images by Isabel Alexander is due from Parthian in October.