Insiders/outsiders : refugees from Nazi Europe and their contribution to British visual culture / edited by Monica Bohm-Duchen ; foreword by Sir Norman Rosenthal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bohm-Duchen, Monica, editor.

Rosenthal, Norman, writer of foreword.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europeans.

History.

Art, British.

Jewish artists.

Great Britain.

Jewish refugees--Great Britain.

Jewish refugees.

Jewish artists--Great Britain.

Art, British--20th century--European influences.

Europeans--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Lund Humphries, 2019.

Summary:

Insiders/Outsiders', published to accompany a UK-wide arts festival of the same name in 2019, examines the extraordinarily rich and pervasive contribution of refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe to the visual culture, art education and art-world structures of the United Kingdom. In every field, emigres arriving from Europe in the 1930s - supported by a small number of like-minded individuals already resident in the UK - introduced a professionalism, internationalism and bold avant-gardism to a British art world not known for these attributes. 0At a time when the issue of immigration is much debated, the book serves as a reminder of the importance of cultural cross-fertilization and of the deep, long-lasting and wide-ranging contribution that refugees make to British life.00Exhibition: Arts festival throughout Britain (May 2019 - May 2020).

Contents:

Foreword / Sir Norman Rosenthal

Introduction / Daniel Snowman

Accents in Art: Émigré Painters and Sculptors in Britain after 1933 / Monica Bohm-Duchen

Refugees from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Architecture Alan Powers

Émigré Designers / Anna Nyburg

Émigré Photographers / Michael Berkowitz

'Seen by the eye and felt by the heart: TheÉmigrés as Art Teachers / Sarah Macdougall

The Reimann School and Studios, London 1937-41 / Swantje Kuhfuss-Wickenheiser

'A very specialized subject' Art History in Britain / Hans Christian Hönes

Refugee Picture Restorers in the United Kingdom / Morwenna Blewett

Émigré Art Publishers / Anna Nyburg

Picture Post: 'Strongly political and anti-Fascist' / Amanda Hopkinson

Émigré Art Dealers and Collectors / Richard Aronowitz with Shauna Isaac

A Short History of Leicester's Early Twentieth-Century German Art Collection / Simon Lake

'Our horizon is the barbed wire' Artistic Life in the British Internment Camps / Rachel Dickson

Modernist Sanctuary: Hampstead in the 1930s and 1940s / Monica Bohm-Duchen

The Law Road Flats / Leyla Daybelge

Roland Penrose: 'Changez la Vie' / Antony Penrose

Herbert Read: The Eye of the Storm / Michael Paraskos

An Unconventional Couple: Diana and Fred Uhlman and their Support for Exiled Artists / Anna Müller-Härlin

George Bell and the Art of Refugees from Totalitarian Europe / Andrew Chandler

The Contribution of German-Speaking Refugee Artists to British Wartime Propaganda / Charmian Brinson

Not Only Biographies: A Brief Institutional History of German and Austrian Exiled Artist Groups / Keith Holz

Artists, Refugees and the Festival of Britain

Chronology of Key Events 1933-51

Notes

Select Bibliography

Contributors' Biographies

Index

Image Credits

Acknowledgements [sic].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-248) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1848223463

9781848223462

OCLC:

1057764302

Publisher Number:

99980696823