The modernity of English art, 1914-30
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The modernity of English art, 1914-30
Manchester University Press, c1997
- : hardback
- : pbk.
Available at 3 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hardback ISBN 9780719037320
Description
This ground-breaking book re-conceptualises the history of English painting from 1914 to the end of the 1920s. Whereas most accounts of the period have tended to see English art as marked by a tension between the native tradition and Modernism. The modernity of English art rethinks the 1920s by offering a cultural history of this period. Whitin this context, the book explore the fate of both Modernist and non-Modernist painters. Established figures such as Paul Nash, C.R.W. Nevinson and Wyndham Lewis, as well as important but little-known artists like Charles Sims, John Armstrong and Ethelbert White, are discussed and illustrated in a series of innovative readings develop in the light of this strongly revisionist account of an important but neglected period of English art.
Table of Contents
- Radical modernism 1914-18
- modernity and revisionist modernism in the 20s
- the absent city - Paul Nash
- the end of painting - Wyndham Lewis
- nostalgia and mourning
- other voices - the conquest of representation.
- Volume
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: pbk. ISBN 9780719037337
Description
This ground-breaking book re-conceptualises the history of English painting from 1914 to the end of the 1920s. Whereas most accounts of the period have tended to see English art as marked by a tension between the native tradition and Modernism. The modernity of English art rethinks the 1920s by offering a cultural history of this period. Whitin this context, the book explore the fate of both Modernist and non-Modernist painters. Established figures such as Paul Nash, C.R.W. Nevinson and Wyndham Lewis, as well as important but little-known artists like Charles Sims, John Armstrong and Ethelbert White, are discussed and illustrated in a series of innovative readings develop in the light of this strongly revisionist account of an important but neglected period of English art. -- .
Table of Contents
- Radical modernism 1914-18
- modernity and revisionist modernism in the 20s
- the absent city - Paul Nash
- the end of painting - Wyndham Lewis
- nostalgia and mourning
- other voices - the conquest of representation.
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