Romantic Moderns author-steven-heller Striking the right balance is

Striking the right balance is crucial

The process unfolds in the same manner the world over

it seemed a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea-shops

Nearly 130 years after his death

Behl captured the beauty and luminosity of these works using long exposures and only natural light and now presents them here digitally restored to show the paintings closer to their original glory than ever before

Romantic Moderns author-steven-heller Striking the right balance isEngland has had a bad press from the Modernist disciples of a shiny, high speed future. While the battles for modern art and modern society were being fought in Paris and Spain, it seemed a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea shops. Alexandra Harris tells a different story. In the 1930s and 1940s, artists and writers explored what it might mean to be alive now, and in England.