Recent Sussex-related publications and releases.

If you like ROSA Magazine, you’ll also like Hope Wolf’s lavishly illustrated new book Sussex Modernism, published in May to coincide with the Wolf-curated exhibition of the same name at Towner Eastbourne this summer.
Wolf admits in the introduction that the book’s title is a little cheeky: there is no artist who could be defined as ‘a Sussex Modernist’ per se. Rather, she examines commonalities between a variety of influential artists who based themselves in Sussex (or were natives to it) in a period roughly spanning the 20th century. And she discusses what affect living in the county – rather than, say, the bustling metropolis of London – has had on their art.
She starts with Eric Gill and Jacob Epstein’s plan to create a ‘twentieth-century Stonehenge’ outside Lewes, and ends with the Binnie sisters’ Neo-Naturism in the 1980s. There are analyses of the Bloomsburys at Charleston and the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic in Ditchling, ...