Edward Burra but is diverse

but is diverse

and a full biography

Larry Silver takes the reader on a tour across continents

Including new writing from the artist alongside four commissioned essays by leading art historians and critics

Emerging out of the long West-Coast shadows of California Assemblage by way of LA Pop and Conceptualism

Edward Burra but is diverseEdward Burra (1905 76) was an English painter who is best known for his paintings of the seedy underworld of urban life. Yet, as this fascinating new monograph on his work reveals, his interests were much broader, incorporating landscape and still life paintings, stage designs, book illustration and watercolours. Somewhat neglected by histories of modern art because his singular vision was often at odd with the mainstream art world, his work is now