Romantic Moderns

ISBN: 9780500296486 Categorii: Diverse, Diverse. An apariție: 2023 Autor: Alexandra Harris Editură: Thames & Hudson Tip copertă: Paperback Număr pagini: 416 Stoc: Stoc limitat

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An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism.

While the battles for modern art and society were being fought in France and Spain, it has seemed a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea-shops. In this multi-award-winning book, Alexandra Harris tells a different story. In the 1930s and 1940s, artists and writers explored what it meant to be alive in England. Eclectically, passionately, wittily, they showed that 'the modern' need not be at war with the past. Constructivists and conservatives could work together, and even the Bauhaus emigre, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, was beguiled into taking photographs for Betjeman's nostalgic Oxford University Chest.

This modern English renaissance was shared by writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics, tourists and composers. John Piper, Virginia Woolf, Florence White, Christopher Tunnard, Evelyn Waugh, E. M. Forster and the Sitwells are part of the story, along with Bill Brandt, Graham Sutherland, Eric Ravilious and Cecil Beaton.

Limba
Engleza
Autor
Alexandra Harris
Data Publicarii
2023
Editura
Thames & Hudson
Latime
13
Inaltime
20
Grosime
2.0
Greutate
450
Tip Coperta
Paperback
Nr Pag
416
Subtitlu
English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
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