Art
History: A review by T.G. Rosenthal (excerpted)
The Times of London, TLS, August 8, 2003
The neo-Romantic
artist Michael Ayrton has not had either as favourable or
as voluminous a critical reception as he deserves. It is
therefore interesting to see this major contribution to modern
British art history coming from across the Atlantic. Jacob
E. Nyenhuis, a Professor of Classics and Provost emeritus
at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, has concentrated on
a single aspect of Ayrton’s work, but that aspect is
so central, and was so consuming for the last two decades
of the artist’s brief life, that it becomes, almost
overnight, the cornerstone of all present and future studies
of Ayrton’s work.
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