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English art and modernism, 1900-1939 / Charles Harrison.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harrison, Charles, 1942-2009, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, English--20th century.
- Art, English.
- Modernism (Art)--England.
- Modernism (Art).
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 417 pages) : 165 illustrations (chiefly color)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1994.
- Summary:
- "This critically acclaimed book is both a detailed history of the development of modern art in England in the early twentieth century and a study of the evolution of the concept of modernism among English artists, critics, and theorists. Charles Harrison explores the two main phases of modern art activity during the period: the years before and during the First World War, when the principal factions were Sickert's Camden Town Group, the English Post-Impressionists, and the Vorticists; and the 1930s, when a new avant garde assembled in response to recent developments in European art, only to divide into groupings of abstract artists, Surrealists, and Realists. Harrison discusses the artists of the period, the most important individual works, and the writings of the critics, resulting in a major contribution to knowledge about the art and theory of modernism"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The Origins of Modernism in England. 1. Introduction : The Turn of the Century. 2. From New English to Camden Town. 3. 'Post-Impressionism' and the 'New Movement'. 4. Cubism, Futurism, Vorticism. 5. The Great War
- pt. 2. Between the Wars. 6. Hiatus : 1919-1924. 7. Still Life and Landscape in the Twenties. 8. The Development of Modernism in Sculpture. 9. The Early Thirties : Unit One. 10. 'Abstract' and 'Constructive' Art. 11. The Later Thirties : Surrealism, 'Realism', Romanticism. 12. Postscript : The Euston Road School
- Appendix : The Seven & Five Society.
- Notes:
- Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on May 5, 2020).
- "With new a introduction."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-401 and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300254914
- 0300254911
- OCLC:
- 1153266878
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