An art-historical study by Martin Gayford (b. 1952), author of collections of interviews with David Hockney and Lucian Freud, books on British art, Van Gogh and Michelangelo, is dedicated to London painting of the 1950s–1970s, in which innovations are intricately intertwined pop art with its obsession with the mass culture of the consumer society, existentially oriented neo-expressionism and the traditional English interest in colorful matter. The work of leading British artists of this time - Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, R. B. Kitay, David Hockney and others - is considered by the author in the context of aesthetic searches and the vibrant bohemian life of swinging London. The book is based on conversations Gayford had with most of the artists he talks about; Numerous excerpts from these conversations immerse the reader in the atmosphere of British art of the recent past. The publishing layout is preserved in PDF A4 format.