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The avant-garde in interwar England : medieval modernism and the London underground
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The avant-garde in interwar England : medieval modernism and the London underground

Author: Michael T Saler
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
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"The Avant-Garde in Interwar England addresses modernism's ties to tradition, commerce, nationalism, and spirituality through an analysis of the assimilation of visual modernism in England between 1910 and 1939. During this period, a debate raged across the nation concerning the purpose of art in society. On one side were the aesthetic formalists, led by members of London's Bloomsbury Group, who thought art was  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Michael T Saler
ISBN: 0195119665 9780195119664
OCLC Number: 38295223
Description: xii, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Framing the Picture --
A "Warrior of the Kingdom" Frank Pick's City of Dreams, 1878-1915 --
Making It New Modernism and the North of England --
Morris, the Machine, and Modernism, 1915-1934 --
The Earthly Paradise of the London Underground --
Educating the Consumer --
The Return of the Bathing Beauties, 1936-1941 --
The Demise of Medieval Modernism.
Responsibility: Michael T. Saler.
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This text addresses modernism's ties to tradition, commerce, nationalism and spirituality through an analysis of the assimilation of visual modernism in England between 1910 and 1939. Specifically,  Read more...

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