Romantic Moderns (B-Format Paperback) : English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper - English Writers, Artists Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John

An award-winning study of England''s unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. 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-award-winning book, 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 Betjeman''s 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.

Product details

• Authors: ALEXANDRA HARRIS, Alexandra Harris, Harris Alexandra
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2023
• EAN: 9780500296486
• ISBN: 978-0-500-29648-6
• No. of pages: 416
• Weight: 500 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; England, English, The arts: general issues, ART / History / General, ART / European, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, The arts: general topics, Literature;British Isles;Romantics;Virginia Woolf