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.

List of contents

• 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

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
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2020
• EAN: 9780197266755
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726675-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: British Academy Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; 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