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The Real And The Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars A Times Best Art Book Of 2022
The Real And The Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars A Times Best Art Book Of 2022
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Description: The Real and the Romantic The devastation of World War I left the art world decentered and directionless. This book is about its recovery. Spalding explores how exciting new ideas coexisted with a desire for continuity and a renewed interest in the past. We see the challenge to English artists represented by Paul C zanne and Pablo 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 toward 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.
Title: The Real And The Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars A Times Best Art Book Of 2022
Author(s): Spalding Frances
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Barcode: 9780500518649
Pages: 384 Pages, 147 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 9/19/2023
Category: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles
Description: The Real and the Romantic The devastation of World War I left the art world decentered and directionless. This book is about its recovery. Spalding explores how exciting new ideas coexisted with a desire for continuity and a renewed interest in the past. We see the challenge to English artists represented by Paul C zanne and Pablo 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 toward 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.
Title: The Real And The Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars A Times Best Art Book Of 2022
Author(s): Spalding Frances
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Barcode: 9780500518649
Pages: 384 Pages, 147 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 9/19/2023
Category: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles
