Hanging a rebel : the life of C.R.W. Nevinson

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Hanging a rebel : the life of C.R.W. Nevinson

Michael J.K. Walsh

Lutterworth, 2008

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [342]-352) and indexes

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The first comprehensive study of the life and work of C.R.W. Nevinson, an important painter and writer whose name is re-emerging to take its rightful place among the established icons of art and literature in early 20th century England. Numerous previous accounts remember Nevinson solely as a Futurist and war painter. However, in recent years there has been a revival of academic interest in his role in the inter-war period and the Second World War, and with it, the need for a full study of his life and works. Painter, social commentator, novelist and society host, Nevinson can now be remembered as one of the most prominent and distinguished artists of his generation. In this interdisciplinary work, Walsh presents a thorough analysis of Nevinsonis artistic achievements, explaining his problematic relationships with contemporaries like Wyndham Lewis, Roger Fry, Amadeo Modigliani, H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw. This book gives the reader a wider understanding of the changing cultural landscape of Britain between 1889 and 1946 and introduces the figure of C.R.W. Nevinson in context, providing an objective and captivating account of his explosive and multi-layered personality.

Table of Contents

  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Internationalism and Intellectualism, The Nevinsons (1889-1909)
  • Made at the Slade (1909-1912)
  • Paris, London and the Bon Viveur (1912-13)
  • The Distinction of Abdiel', England's Only Futurist (1914)
  • The Western Front I, Nevinson's War (1914-1915)
  • The Western Front II, 'Le Beau dans l'Horrible' (1916)
  • The Western Front III, 'From the Barren Wilderness of Abstraction' (1917-1918)
  • The Post-War Dream (1919)
  • New York, Prague and The Waste Land (1920-21)
  • 'The Playboy of the West-End World', London and Paris (1922-1925)
  • The Lives of a Modern Bohemian (1926-29)
  • Visions of the Apocalypse and the Warnings of Cassandra (1930-1932)
  • 'The Strangest Manifestations' (1933-35)
  • A Prodigal's Return (1936-39)
  • . C.R.W. Nevinson's Second Great War (1939-1945)
  • The Death of a 'Beau Saboteur' (1946)
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names
  • Art Index.

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