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The avant-garde in interwar England : medieval modernism and the London Underground / Michael T. Saler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saler, Michael T., 1960- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pick, Frank.
- Modernism (Art)--England.
- Modernism (Art).
- Art, Modern--20th century--England.
- Art, Modern.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--England--History--20th century.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 242p. ) ill., facsim., port.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text is an analysis of the assimilation of visual modernism in England between 1910 and 1939 and looks at, in detail, the life of Frank Pick, director of the London Underground.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- 1 Framing the Picture
- 2 A "Warrior of the Kingdom": Frank Pick's City of Dreams, 1878-1915
- 3 Making It New: Modernism and the North of England
- 4 Morris, the Machine, and Modernism, 1915-1934
- 5 The Earthly Paradise of the London Underground
- 6 Educating the Consumer
- 7 The Return of the Bathing Beauties, 1936-1941
- 8 The Demise of Medieval Modernism
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1999.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-233) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-771156-1
- 1-60256-276-8
- 1-280-47136-0
- 0-19-802812-1
- 0-19-534906-7
- 1-60256-808-1
- OCLC:
- 826490507
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