This landmark volume offers a major re-assessment of the art that
emerged in Britain in the twenty years following the end of the
Second World War: a period of anxiety, profound social change and
explosive creativity. Published to coincide with the Barbican
Centre's 40th anniversary, it draws together the work of fifty
artists, exploring a period straddled precariously between the
horror of the past and the promise of the future. Spanning
painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and photography,
Postwar Modern will explore a rich field of experiment which
challenges the idea that Britain was a cultural backwater at this
time. Through new texts by Jane Alison, Hilary Floe, Ben Highmore,
Hammad Nassar and Greg Salter, the book looks afresh at celebrated
artists such as Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Lucian Freud and
Eduardo Paolozzi, shown in dialogue with lesser-known figures.
These will include those, like Francis Newton Souza, Avinash
Chandra and Robert Adams, who were acclaimed by contemporaries but
neglected in subsequent history-making; others, like Kim Lim, Anwar
Jalal Shemza and Franciszka Themerson, are only now attracting the
attention they deserve. Throughout their work, vital shared
preoccupations become visible: gender, class, race and nationhood;
the body, the bombsite, and the home. It is a period resonating
strongly with our own: as the UK emerges from more than a decade of
austerity and confronts the challenges of post-pandemic
reconstruction, society is asking similarly deep questions about
who we want and need to be.
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