Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters 1945-70

Martin Gayford

The development of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s has never before been told before as a single narrative. R. B. Kitaj's proposal, made in 1976, that there was a "substantial School of London" was essentially correct but it caused confusion because it implied that there was a ...