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This is Tomorrow

Twentieth-century Britain and its Artists
BuchGebunden
352 Seiten
Englisch
Thames & Hudson Ltderschienen am08.09.2022
A compelling and lively history that examines the lives of British artists from the late-19th century to today. In This is Tomorrow Michael Bird takes a fresh look at the long twentieth century´, from the closing years of Queen Victoria´s reign to the turn of the millennium, through the lens of the artists who lived and worked in this ever-changing Britain. Bird examines how the rhythms of change and adaptation in art became embedded in the collective consciousness of the nation and vividly evokes the personalities who populate and drive this story, looking beyond individual careers and historical moments to weave together interconnecting currents of change that flowed through London, Glasgow, Leeds, Cornwall, the Caribbean, New York, Moscow and Berlin. From the American James McNeill Whistler´s defence of his new kind of modern art against the British art establishment in the latter half of the 19th century to the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson´s melting icebergs in London, he traverses the lives of the artists that have recorded, questioned and defined our times. At the heart of this original book are the successive waves of displacement caused by global wars and persecution that conversely brought fresh ideas and new points of view to the British Isles; educational reforms opened new routes for young people from working-class backgrounds; movements of social change enabled the emergence of female artists and artists of colour; and the emergence of the mass media shaped modern modes of communication and culture. These are the ebbs and flows that Michael Bird teases out in this panoramic account of Britain and its artists in across the twentieth century.mehr
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KlappentextA compelling and lively history that examines the lives of British artists from the late-19th century to today. In This is Tomorrow Michael Bird takes a fresh look at the long twentieth century´, from the closing years of Queen Victoria´s reign to the turn of the millennium, through the lens of the artists who lived and worked in this ever-changing Britain. Bird examines how the rhythms of change and adaptation in art became embedded in the collective consciousness of the nation and vividly evokes the personalities who populate and drive this story, looking beyond individual careers and historical moments to weave together interconnecting currents of change that flowed through London, Glasgow, Leeds, Cornwall, the Caribbean, New York, Moscow and Berlin. From the American James McNeill Whistler´s defence of his new kind of modern art against the British art establishment in the latter half of the 19th century to the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson´s melting icebergs in London, he traverses the lives of the artists that have recorded, questioned and defined our times. At the heart of this original book are the successive waves of displacement caused by global wars and persecution that conversely brought fresh ideas and new points of view to the British Isles; educational reforms opened new routes for young people from working-class backgrounds; movements of social change enabled the emergence of female artists and artists of colour; and the emergence of the mass media shaped modern modes of communication and culture. These are the ebbs and flows that Michael Bird teases out in this panoramic account of Britain and its artists in across the twentieth century.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-500-02443-0
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2022
Erscheinungsdatum08.09.2022
Seiten352 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 162 mm, Höhe 239 mm, Dicke 35 mm
Gewicht978 g
Artikel-Nr.58745705
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GenreKunst/Architektur

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: a moving train 1. Fireworks 2. Pushed by surroundings 3. Kimonos on the Clyde 4. Shadows in my room 5. Who´s afraid of the avant-garde? 6. Primitive mercenaries 7. A chamber of horrors 8. White walls and sandals 9. Deep Britain 10. Storm and progress 11. Curious liberty 12. A different kind of life 13. Cold War modern 14. Tomorrow today 15. Glorious Technicolor 16. Act now 17. The longest revolution 18. We will be 19. Shark pool 20. Inside stories 21. The silence of mirrorsmehr

Autor

Michael Bird is a writer, broadcaster and curator. His books include Artists' Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney, Studio Voices: Art and Life in 20th-century Britain and 100 Ideas that Changed Art. In 2016-17 he was Goodison Fellow at the British Library, researching the Artists' Lives archive.