Part of the Pocket Perspectives series.

Respected painter and writer Julian Bell offers original insights into the art, practice and ongoing importance of painting.

Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series celebrates writers and thinkers who have helped shape the conversation across the arts. Mixing classic and contemporary texts, reissues and abridgements, these are bite-sized, fully illustrated reads in an attractive, affordable and highly collectable package.