'All the good stories, and more, are here this is a genuinely encyclopaedic work, unlike anything else I have come across on the topic, informed by a deep love and understanding of modern painting. Everybody interested in the subject should read it' - Andrew Marr, Sunday Times 'Gayford is clearly an astute questioner and good listener, getting artists to talk engagingly about their careers and creative preoccupations' - Daily Telegraph 'A compelling tale thats sure to fascinate art lovers' - Artists & Illustrators 'Remarkably thorough and authoritative comprehensively illustrated the definitive history as well as an appreciation of its period' - The Art Book Review 'Intimate a joyful, human read' - The Arts Desk 'To imagine that he is an amanuensis to the London painters scarely does him justice. He is more like their Vasari Its a mark of the authors own talent that he has managed to herd such diverse and often unbiddable figures into a satisfying and insightful group portrait' - Evening Standard 'Engaging' - Apollo 'Admirable and extremely readable' - Charles Saumarez Smith 'An admirable, authoritative work of art criticism [ a] comprehensive, intimate inspection of the London art scene between 1945 and 1970 tragi-comically wonderfully revealing' - Patrick Skene Catling, Spectator 'If you are interested in modern British art, the book is unputdownable. If you are not, read it.' - Grey Gowrie, Financial Times 'Gayford recounts the artists lives and their travails with sympathy and understanding wonderfully accomplished' - The Times 'Martin Gayford has a gift for sustaining conversations that unfold across decades' - Guardian 'Wonderful a book rich in both anecdotes and aperēus' - New Statesman 'An important, authoritative work of art criticism that recognises schools of painters, yet displays the superior distinctions of individual geniuses' - Spectator 'If there were anyone qualified to write about these masters and many others, its Gayford, who draws on thirty years of interviews' - artinfo.com 'Superb Gayford deploys Bacons voice to brilliant effect, and you hang on to every word' - Observer 'The real triumph of the book is the survival of the medium of paint itself it is a survival story, one of victory, and also one of legacy' - Elephant 'An impressive conspectus of the post-war British art world' - Country Life 'A masterpiece, a major work of modern art history As [ Martin Gayford] traces Londons art scene from the 1940s to the 1970s, the configuration of friends and rivals he presents is as lucid as a family tree... filled with vivid anecdotes that might have otherwise disappeared into the Soho air' - Wall Street Journal 'This encyclopedic study of Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach and the greatest generation of British visual artists since Turners time is informed by a deep love and understanding of modern painting' - Sunday Times 'Compelling vivid highly recommended' - Irish Arts Review 'Wise and generous' - Julian Barnes, Guardian 'Brings this vibrant period in UK art history to life for 21st-century readers' - Art Society Magazine 'An exceptionally lively, emotional, affectionate and compelling account of painters in the London village in the post-war period' - Marina Vaizey, The Tablet 'Gayfords entertainingly seamless insights made outsiders feel like insiders' - Prospect 'A seminal work: limpidly written, replete with lightly-worn scholarship and unrivalled intimate knowledge, it should make us hold our artistic heads high' - William Boyd, New Statesman, Books of the Year 'Superb a survey of Britain's roistering postwar painters, dominated by the Bacon-Freud- Hockney triumvirate, that is erudite, lucid and enlightening in equal measure' - Michael Prodger, New Statesman, Books of the Year 'The artists were, if anything, even more colourful than the paintings Gayford lucidly and entertainingly lays out their characters and how they investigated what could be done with paint' - Sunday Times, Art Book of the Year 'A vividly engaging portrait of the postwar British scene, filled with revealing observations from the artists own mouths' - Observer, Books of the Year 'The artists were, if anything, even more colourful than the paintings, and Gayford lucidly and entertainingly lays out their characters and how they investigated what could be done with paint' - Sunday Times, Art Book of the Year
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