Modern times : British prints, 1913-1939 / Jennifer Farrell ; with contributions by Gillian Forrester and Rachel Mustalish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farrell, Jennifer (Jennifer E.), 1970- author.

Contributor:

Mustalish, Rachel, contributor.

Forrester, Gillian, contributor.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Garfield, Leslie J., 1932---Art collections--Exhibitions.

Garfield, Leslie J.

Garfield, Johanna--Art collections--Exhibitions.

Garfield, Johanna.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)--Exhibitions.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.).

Prints, British--20th century--Exhibitions.

Prints, British.

Drawing, British--20th century--Exhibitions.

Drawing, British.

Art--Private collections.

Art museums.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

200 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021.

Summary:

"Throughout the tumultuous decades of the early twentieth century, the graphic arts flourished in Great Britain as artists sought to portray everyday life during the machine age. This richly illustrated volume reintroduces rare print works from the collection of Leslie and Johanna Garfield into the narrative of modernism, demonstrating their relationship to other movements such as Cubism, Futurism, and Constructivism. Essays explore how artists turned to printmaking to alleviate trauma, memorialize their wartime experiences, and capture the aspirations and fears of the twenties and thirties. Special attention is given to the linocut technique revolutionized by Claude Flight and his students at London's Grosvenor School of Modern Art. Highlighted as well are the pioneering works of artists such as C. R. W. Nevinson, Sybil Andrews, Cyril E. Power, Paul Nash, Edward Wadsworth, Edith Lawrence, Ursula Fookes, and Lill Tschudi. In their quest to promote a more democratic art, these artists created innovative graphics that portrayed in subject, form, material, and technique the dynamic era in which they lived."--Provided by distributor.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Forces in Flux: Transformation and Experimentation in British Printmaking / Jennifer Farrell

The Shadow Line: British Printmakers and the First World War / Gillian Forrester

The Art of To-Day: British Modernist Linocuts in the Interwar Years / Jennifer Farrell

Capturing Modern Life: Cyril E. Power's The Eight from Sketch to Print / Rachel Mustalish.

Notes:

Chiefly illustrated.

"This catalog is published in conjunction with Modern Times: British Prints, 1913 - 1939, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from November 1, 2021, to January 9, 2022."--Page 200.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-195) and index.

ISBN:

1588397394

9781588397393

OCLC:

1245473724