Above the Battlefield - Modernism and the Peace Movement in Britain, 1900-1918

Klappentext >Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Zusammenfassung The early twentieth century is usually remembered as an era of rising nationalism and military hostility! culminating in the disaster of the First World War. This book explores the role of artists and writers in the formation of a modern! secular peace movement in Britain! and the impact of ideas about 'positive peace' on their artistic practice.

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• Authors: Grace Brockington, Brockington Grace
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2010
• EAN: 9780300151954
• ISBN: 978-0-300-15195-4
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; Paul Mellon Centre for Studies; Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; Paul Mellon Centre for Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, ART / European, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, History of Art, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Modernism, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Demonstrations & protest movements, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)