Winner of Wales Book of the Year Creative Non-Fiction
‘A remarkable and important book’ – Murdo Macdonald, Planet
Peter Lord surveys the evolution of the visual culture of Wales from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century in this new, single-volume history.
The author describes both how the work emerged from its Welsh historical context and was related to the art of other cultures. Revealing the many discoveries made since the first publication of The Visual Culture of Wales series in 1998, The Tradition is the only study now in print that encompasses the whole field of Welsh visual art.
The Tradition includes 400 high-quality, full-colour reproductions of many famous and esoteric Welsh artworks, from artists such as Augustus John, Ceri Richards, Christopher Williams and many more.
Peter Lord is considered to be the greatest living scholar on Welsh visual art and culture.
Includes new and expanded material not originally featured within Lord’s Visual Culture of Wales series. Written for everyone with an interest in the art and history of Wales.
It is published with the support of the National Library of Wales, National Museum of Wales, The Paul Mellon Foundation, Addyman Books, the Marc Fitch Fund, and the Books Council of Wales.
Peter Lord writes and broadcasts about the visual culture of Wales in both Welsh and English languages. In 1994 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Yale Center for British Art, and between 1996 and 2003 he led a project at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies which resulted in the three-volume history The Visual Culture of Wales. Subsequently he was Research Fellow at CREW, Swansea University. He has curated exhibitions for the National Library of Wales and other institutions. His more recent publications with Parthian include an autobiography, Relationships with Pictures (2013), Looking Out (2020) and The Art of Music: Branding the Welsh Nation, co-written with Dr Rhian Davies (2022). He has lived near Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, since 1974.