SOUTH FROM EPHESUS

Travel

Sewell, Brian

Asia

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Outsider is the life of a child, boy, adolescent, student and young man in London between the Great Depression of the 30s and the sudden prosperity and social changes of the 60s, affected by the moral attitudes of the day, by the Blitz, post-war austerity and the new freedoms of the later 50s that were resisted with such obstinacy by the old regime. It is about education in the almost forgotten sense of the pursuit of learning for its own sake. It is about the imposed experiences of school and National Service and the chosen experience of being a student at the Courtauld Institute under Johannes Wilde and Anthony Blunt. It is about sex, pre-pubertal, in adolescence and in early adulthood, and the price to be paid for it. It is about art and the art market in the turbulent years of its change from the pursuit of well-connected gentleman to the professional occupation of experts.

Outsider: Almost Always, Never Quite

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Quartet Books

Selected Criticism of English Art from the London Evening Standard.

Naked Emperors: Criticisms of English Contemporary Art

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Sleeping with Dogs is the record of one man's passionate affection for the dog, rooted in his early childhood and lasting undiminished into his dotage. These were for the most part dogs discarded and left to fate - tied to the railings of Kensington Gardens, found with a broken leg in the wilds of Turkey, adopted from an animal rescue home, passed on by the vet - but there was also a whippet of noble pedigree and three generations of a family of crossbreeds in which the whippet strain was strong. They were not pets, but indulged friends and companions, with all of whom he shared his bed, and who richly rewarded him with loyalty and affection. This is not a sentimental or determinedly anthropomorphic book - the dogs remain steadfastly dogs. It is observant and records the canine society of dog and dog as much as the relationship of man and dog. It is, at the same time, a deeply touching account of the lives and very different characters of seventeen dogs over eighty years or so, ranging from Jack Russell to Alsatian through half-boxer, half-pointer and half-Karabas, to purest indecipherable mongrel.

Sleeping With Dogs: A Peripheral Autobiography

Quartet Books Ltd.

Suddenly weary of the tyranny of Western European art, Brian Sewell first visited Turkey in 1975. Delighted by the unexpected wealth of Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Islamitic cultures there, he returned three of four times a year until 1990. This book is based on his early journeys in Aegean Turkey following in teh footsteps of early nineteenth-century travellers, some of them responsible for finding great treasures.Sewell paints and exotic and idiosyncratically researched picture of ancient Asia minor, its influence on European culture and its modern inhabitants, self-mocking and autobiographical.

South from Ephesus: Travels in Aegean Turkey

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Brian Sewell. 365 p., Creasing & fading to spine. Shelf- wear. Contents unmarked.

The Reviews That Caused the Rumpus

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

A collection of more than 100 reviews and articles about 20th century artists by Brian Sewell, art critic for "The Evening Standard". Originally published as "The Reviews That Caused the Rumpus", this is a revised edition which also features the best of Sewell's work.

An alphabet of villains

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Beautifully illustrated with over 200 color images, Nothing Wasted is the first complete overview of one of Britain’s greatest contemporary painters, Richard Harrison. 
At a time when figurative painting has long been out of fashion in British art schools and among the curators of the nation’s galleries of modern art, Richard Harrison has been one of the very few younger contemporary artists to hold to this ancestral tradition. His early work was essentially abstract, and abstract values have formed the armature of all of his later work, but in subject he has moved from an interest in the texture and manipulable qualities of the simple materials of a painting to biblical and mythical narratives that were common among European painters from the High Renaissance to the High Olympus of Victorian art. As a student at Chelsea School of Art, Harrison was noticed in 1987 by the critic Brian Sewell, then searching for young painters for an exhibition; they have remained in contact ever since. This affectionate but dispassionate and critical book, part analysis and part account of an often alarming life, represents a comprehensive record of Harrison’s intellectual and aesthetic development.

Nothing Wasted: The Paintings of Richard Harrison

Philip Wilson Publishers

For Mr B it was love at first sight: when he saw the tiny donkey being abused by its owner, he knew he had to come to her rescue. He called her Pavlova (on account of her long legs) and knew that their destinies were now entwined. There was no way his film crew was going to fly them both back to London, so Mr B quite sensibly decides that they will travel overland-and what a trip it runs out to be! He leaves his film crew in Pakistan and embarks on a journey, donkey in tow, across Iran, through Turkey, into Germany and France to bring her home to suburban London. Enroute, they encounter drug smugglers, carpet salesmen and hosts of every variety, until they finally hitch a lift from Hector, an aristocratic Brit who drives a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, in which the two eccentric Englishmen successfully smuggle Pavlova across The Channel.

The White Umbrella

Teen & Young Adult

David R. Godine, Publisher

Weary of what he called the “tyranny” of western art, Brian Sewell first visited Turkey―a country that had captivated him since he was a boy―in 1975. He thought that there, anything he found would have no relevance to the European art that he had so compulsively “stitched in to the dense fabric of my art-historical memory” and that he could therefore enjoy the art for its own sake. But Turkey surprised him, and he delighted in the unexpected wealth of Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic cultures there, returning three of four times a year until 1990. The bulk of this book focuses on his journey from Ephesus to Side one winter. With typically acerbic commentary, Sewell describes (not always favorably) the archaeological and historical sites he comes across, the landscapes that so clearly thrill him, the encounters he has along the way, and the fractious, though wonderfully funny, relationship he forms with Ayhan, his driver. This is a book that could only have been written by Sewell and has become a quirky classic of travel literature. 
This edition features a new Preface by [Sewell].

South From Ephesus: Travels Through Aegean Turkey (Tauris Parke Paperbacks)

Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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