Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper

Harris, Alexandra

ISBN 10: 0500289727 / ISBN 13: 9780500289723

Edité par Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, England, 2015

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320pp w endnotes, bibliography and index. 79 illustrations, 48 in colour. Illustrated wrapper w French flaps is clean, showing small bumping to top front corner. Binding square and not creased. Octavo. 1st SC edition, stated. N° de réf. du vendeur 046229

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Titre : Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists ...

Éditeur : Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, England

Date d'édition : 2015

Reliure : Soft cover

Etat : Near Fine

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Synopsis :

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 Betjemans 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.

Biographie de l'auteur:

Alexandra Harris was born in Sussex in 1981. She studied at the University of Oxford and at the Courtauld Institute in London and now teaches English literature at the University of Liverpool. Romantic Moderns won the Guardian First Book Award and a Somerset Maugham Award in 2011.