The First World War is usually believed to have had a catastrophic
effect on British art, killing artists and movements, and creating
a mood of belligerent philistinism around the nation. In this book,
however, James Fox paints a very different picture of artistic life
in wartime Britain. Drawing on a wide range of sources, he examines
the cultural activities of largely forgotten individuals and
institutions, as well as the press and the government, in order to
shed new light on art's unusual role in a nation at war. He argues
that the conflict's artistic consequences, though initially
disruptive, were ultimately and enduringly productive. He reveals
how the war effort helped forge a much closer relationship between
the British public and their art - a relationship that informed the
country's cultural agenda well into the 1920s.
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