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The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars – A Times Best Art Book of 2022 (Hardcover)
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The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars – A Times Best Art Book of 2022 (Hardcover)
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The Times and Sunday Times Art Book of the Year 'Superb ...
Spalding is a lucid and revealing guide who wears her scholarship
lightly' Sunday Times 'Spalding’s prose is as clear as a
Ravilious greenhouse, her thoughts as orderly as a Ben Nicholson
white relief' The Times A fresh look at a period of English art
that has surged in interest and popularity in recent years,
authored by one of Britain's leading art historians and critics.
The 21st century has seen a surge of interest in English art of the
interwar years. Women artists, such as Winifred Knights, Frances
Hodgkins and Evelyn Dunbar, have come to the fore, while familiar
names – Paul Nash, Eric Ravilious and Stanley Spencer – have
reached new audiences. High-profile exhibitions have attracted
recordbreaking visitor numbers and challenged received opinion. In
The Real and the Romantic, Frances Spalding, one of Britain’s
leading art historians and critics, takes a fresh and timely look
at this rich period in English art. The devastation of the First
World War left the art world decentred and directionless. This book
is about its recovery. Spalding explores how exciting new ideas
co-existed with a desire for continuity and a renewed interest in
the past. We see the challenge to English artists represented by
Cézanne and Picasso, and the role played by museums and galleries
in this period. Women artists, writers and curators contributed to
the emergence of a new avant-garde. The English landscape was
revisited in modern terms. The 1930s marked a high point in the
history of modernism in Britain, but the mood darkened with the
prospect of a return to war. The former advance towards abstraction
and internationalism was replaced by a renewed concern with
history, place, memory and a sense of belonging. Native traditions
were revived in modern terms but in ways that also let in the past.
Surrealism further disturbed the ascetic purity of high modernism
and fed into the British love of the strange. Throughout these
years, the pursuit of ‘the real’ was set against, and sometimes
merged with, an inclination towards the ‘romantic’, as English
artists sought to respond to their subjects and their times.
General
Imprint: |
Thames and Hudson
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Authors: |
Frances Spalding
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Dimensions: |
246 x 186 x 45mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
384 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-500-51864-9 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-500-51864-5 |
Barcode: |
9780500518649 |
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