Studio Lives: Architect, Art and Artist in 20th-Century Britain

By examining the studios and studio-houses used by British artists between 1900 and 1940, this book reveals the ways in which artists used architecture – occupying and adapting Victorian studios and commissioning new ones. In doing so, it shows them coming to terms with the past, and inventing different modes of being modern, collaborating with architects and shaping their work.

In its scrutiny of the physical surroundings of artistic life during this period, the book sheds insight into how...