Insane Acquaintances

Visual Modernism and Public Taste in Britain, 1910-1951

Daniel Moore (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2020
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-726675-5 (ISBN)

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Insane Acquaintances explores the encounter between modernist art and the British public. Built around case studies of modernist ‘moments’ in the period 1910-1951, it explores some of the legacies of modernism in Britain.

Insane Acquaintances explores a range of exhibitions, organisations and institutions that mediated and promoted modernism in Britain. In a series of case studies on subjects ranging from the first Postimpressionist exhibition in London in 1910, the teaching of modernist art in schools, the decoration and design of the modernist home, the International Surrealist exhibition in London in 1936 and the Festival of Britain in 1951, Insane Acquaintances charts some of the ways in which modernism not only sought to improve the quality of art but also the quality of art's reception in Britain. It also provides an institutional history of some of the groups and organisations that fostered modernist art in Britain during that period.

Daniel Moore is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, having previously been a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow there. He works on late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century British artistic and literary cultures, and he has published on Ford Madox Ford, Henry James, Vernon Lee and D. H. Lawrence amongst others. His is currently Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies, and the Lead Editor of the journal Modernist Cultures.

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List of colour plates

Acknowledgements

1:Revolutionising 'Bird's Custard Isle'

2:Postimpressionism ™

3:'A revolution of incalculable effect': modernism and the teaching of art in schools

4:'But is it possible to live in such a motley setting?': the modernist interior in Britain

5:'A Transformed World': Herbert Read, British surrealism and the institutionalisation of modernism

6:Conclusion: 'Half-Baked if you like': modernist afterlives in Britain, 1945-1951

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Erscheinungsdatum	21.10.2020
Reihe/Serie	British Academy Monographs
Zusatzinfo	21 illustrations with 8pp colour plate section
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 241 mm
Gewicht	506 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-19-726675-4 / 0197266754
ISBN-13	978-0-19-726675-5 / 9780197266755
Zustand	Neuware