Beth Williamson

Beth Williamson is an art historian and writer specialising in the history and theory of 20th-century art in Britain. A former Research Fellow at Tate, she is author of Between Art Practice and Psychoanalysis Mid-Twentieth Century: Anton Ehrenzweig in Context (Ashgate, 2015)

Creative legacy of Nancy Holt, leading light of Land art, explored in new book

In her work, the artist strived to “find our place on the surface of our planet”

Frank Auerbach’s drawings brought out of the shadows

A new book explores the artist’s scratchy, enigmatic drawings of people, long “crowded out” by his heavily textured paintings

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Extravagant volume of post-war photography presents a snapshot of fast-changing British society

From street scenes to social media, this sweeping survey examines how documentary photography has made sense of the UK’s cultural and political climate

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‘Not art history as usual’: book brings together revolutionary writings by the feminist art historian Linda Nochlin

The 30 essays on realism, Modernism and modernity include seven that have never before been published