British Art and the First World War, 1914–1924

James Fox (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2015
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-10587-4 (ISBN)

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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.

James Fox is an art historian and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Educated at Cambridge and Harvard, he received his PhD in History of Art from the University of Cambridge in 2009 with a dissertation entitled 'Business unusual: art in Britain during the First World War, 1914-1918'. His research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Art Center at Yale University, and Churchill College, Cambridge. Fox has published widely on the cultural history of the First World War and modern British art and has presented papers on the subjects in Europe, the United States and Canada. Fox appears frequently in the media: he has written for The Times, The Telegraph and The Independent, and is a BAFTA- and Royal Television Society-nominated documentary filmmaker for the BBC. In 2014 he was selected as one of Apollo magazine's forty most influential young people in the art world.

Introduction; 1. The outbreak of war and the business of art; 2. Perceptions of art; 3. The arts mobilize; 4. War pictures: truth, fiction, function; 5. Peace pictures: escapism, consolation, catharsis; 6. Art and society after the war; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.7.2015
Reihe/Serie	Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
Zusatzinfo	11 Plates, color; 23 Halftones, unspecified; 23 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	181 x 253 mm
Gewicht	690 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-107-10587-0 / 1107105870
ISBN-13	978-1-107-10587-4 / 9781107105874
Zustand	Neuware