Daniel Moore

Insane Acquaintances

Visual Modernism and Public Taste in Britain, 1910-1951

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780197266755
• ISBN-10: 0197266754
• Artikelnr.: 61646403

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of figures
* List of colour plates
* Acknowledgements
* 1:Revolutionising 'Bird's Custard Isle'
* 2:Postimpressionism (TM)
* 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
* Bibliography
* Index