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Modern Life & Modern Subjects: British Art in the Early Twentieth Century

Door Lisa Tickner

Categorie
Schilderkunst
Boeknummer
#401053-LA19
Titel
Modern Life & Modern Subjects: British Art in the Early Twentieth Century
Auteur
Tickner, Lisa
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Yale University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2000
ISBN10
0300083505
ISBN13
9780300083507
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, dust jacket, numerous illustrations (including photographs) in colour and b/w
Samenvatting
In May 1914 the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London opened its exhibition of Twentieth-Century Art. The catalogue identified four main strands in modern painting but included a fifth group of Jewish artists, hung in the Small Gallery. In this illuminating book art historian Lisa Tickner takes a fresh look at the work of artists from each of these strands. In a series of innovative case studies, combining analysis with substantial new research, she examines the artists' radical approaches to the process of painting and their resources in the defining conditions of modern life. Tickner discusses Walter Sickert's Camden Town Murder and L'Affaire de Camden Town in the context of tabloid crime. Augustus John's Lyric Fantasy is seen as rooted in, but also as qualifying, the Edwardian fascination w... (Lees verder)ith gypsies and tramping while memorialising John's dead wife, Ida. The studies for Wyndham Lewis's lost Kermesse are connected to popular dance and to his sense of the wild body. Vanessa Bell's Studland Beach is related to the emergence of the beach as a social and psychic space and to childhood summers in St. Ives drawn on by her sister, Virginia Woolf, in To the Lighthouse. And David Bomb
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Conditie
Goed
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