Romantic Moderns - English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper (Paperback, New Edition)

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 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.

General

Imprint:	Thames and Hudson
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2023
First published:	2010
Authors:	Alexandra Harris
Dimensions:	198 x 129mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	416
Edition:	New Edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-500-29648-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Promotions
LSN:	0-500-29648-0
Barcode:	9780500296486

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