Insane Acquaintances Visual Modernism and Public Taste in Britain, 1910-1951

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Moore, Daniel (Senior Lecturer in Modern and Conte Moore, Moore Daniel
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 20.08.2020
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9780197266755
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726675-5
• Pages: 208
• Series: British Academy Monographs
• Subjects: Cultural Studies, 20th Century, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), History of Art, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Modernism, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus