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Romantic Moderns

English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
416 Seiten
Englisch
Thames & Hudsonerschienen am06.04.20232., überarb. Aufl.
An award-winning study of England´s unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the battles for modern art and society were being fought in France and Spain, it has seemed a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea-shops. In this multi-award-winning book, Alexandra Harris tells a different story. In the 1930s and 1940s, artists and writers explored what it meant to be alive in England. Eclectically, passionately, wittily, they showed that the modern´ need not be at war with the past. Constructivists and conservatives could work together, and even the Bauhaus émigré, László Moholy-Nagy, was beguiled into taking photographs for Betjeman´s nostalgic Oxford University Chest. This modern English renaissance was shared by writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics, tourists and composers. John Piper, Virginia Woolf, Florence White, Christopher Tunnard, Evelyn Waugh, E. M. Forster and the Sitwells are part of the story, along with Bill Brandt, Graham Sutherland, Eric Ravilious and Cecil Beaton.mehr

Produkt

KlappentextAn award-winning study of England´s unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the battles for modern art and society were being fought in France and Spain, it has seemed a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea-shops. In this multi-award-winning book, Alexandra Harris tells a different story. In the 1930s and 1940s, artists and writers explored what it meant to be alive in England. Eclectically, passionately, wittily, they showed that the modern´ need not be at war with the past. Constructivists and conservatives could work together, and even the Bauhaus émigré, László Moholy-Nagy, was beguiled into taking photographs for Betjeman´s nostalgic Oxford University Chest. This modern English renaissance was shared by writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics, tourists and composers. John Piper, Virginia Woolf, Florence White, Christopher Tunnard, Evelyn Waugh, E. M. Forster and the Sitwells are part of the story, along with Bill Brandt, Graham Sutherland, Eric Ravilious and Cecil Beaton.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-500-29648-6
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2023
Erscheinungsdatum06.04.2023
Auflage2., überarb. Aufl.
Seiten416 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht454 g
Illustrationen71 illustrations, 28 in full colour
Artikel-Nr.59009593
Rubriken
GenreKunst/Architektur

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prologue 1. Ancient & Modern 2. Concrete and Curlicues 3. A Georgian Revival 4. Victoriana 5. From Purity to a Pageant 6. A Break for Refreshments 7. The Canon Revised 8. The Weather Forecast 9. Village Life 10. Parish News 11. Variations on a View 12. An Hour in the Garden 13. Dreaming of Manderley 14. House Building 15. Literary Architecturemehr
Kritik
'The originality of Romantic Moderns is the extraordinary breadth of its focus ... a joy to read' - The Sunday Timesmehr