Flight and the Artistic Imagination

Main content: Flight and the Artistic Imagination explores the instinctive human desire to fly. It shows how artists have represented the experience of flight, in both fact and fantasy.

Through an intriguing combination of paintings, sculpture, photographs, drawings, prints and video, including works by Leonardo da Vinci, Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes, Paul Nash, Layla Curtis, Peter Lanyon and Mark Wallinger, the reader will be provided with a unique overview of artists' creative responses to flight.

ISBN: 978 1 907372 37 7