Private View - Robertson/Russell/Snowdon

Published in 1965 by Thomas Nelson and Sons ltd, this is a very good First Edition looking at 'The Lively World of British Art'.
It is presented in the original cardboard slipcase with a very good dust jacket - rare for books of the period. 
Private View was a comprehensive effort by Bryan Robertson, John Russell and Lord Snowdon to promote the contemporary London art world. 
The book examines the current painters and sculptors, the dealers, the critics, the connoisseurs, the schools and the teachers. 
Snowdon's many colour & B/W photographs provide an important record of all the key players. 
The artists include Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, R. B. Kitaj, Peter Blake, Bridget Riley, Richard Hamilton, Patrick Prockter, Peter Phillips, Graham Sutherland, Anthony Caro, Elizabeth Frink, Lynn Chadwick, Alan Davie, Allen Jones, Patrick Caulfield, Richard Smith, Patrick Heron and many others.
 
Massive, lavishly produced overview of the art scene in contemporary Britain (primarily London), organized in four sections:
Part 1: a survey of the background to the postwar period of 1945-1965;
Part 2: focus on artists whose reputation was made between 1950 and 1955;
Part 3: focus on "the machinery of the art world" in the form of a dialogue between the authors; and
Part 4: profiles of artists who had come to the fore in the previous year or two.
 
Especially rich in artists' profiles in each of the sections, with portraits of the artists, reproductions of their work, and photographic documentation of their studios and working environments.
 
34 x 28 cm, 298 pages, in very good condition.