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Romantic Moderns - English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper (Paperback)
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Romantic Moderns - English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper (Paperback)
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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-awardwinning book - now available in
paperback - 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 emigre,
Laszlo 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.
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