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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| 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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What makes The Avant-Garde in Interwar England an exciting book is the variety of issues on which Pick's career sheds light, or which shed light on it. Common Knowledge The value of this book lies in the author's thorough analysis of historical material, the exposure of a network of connections which existed between British art and industry in the period, and in the author's decision to investigate an historical territory that seems to have been unfashionable for several years. Michael T. Saler demonstrates that inter-war London can still yield new and engaging histories. London Journal Michael T. Saler presents a comprehensively researched and copiously annotated discussion of Pick in the context of his time and the production of art and industrial design ... Pick provides the means for Saler to offer a fresh appraisal of English modernism, recasting it as a discourse between the avant-garde of those concerned with 'fine' art, and the mediaeval modernists. London Journal A most interesting and important book ... The point of view that asserts the social utility and value of art, as it derived from Ruskin and Morris and was shared and developed by Pick and others of his generation, remains important for us today, and we are greatly indebted to Michael Saler for having drawn attention to such an important and neglected aspect of our recent cultural history in this excellent and thought-provoking book. Peter Faulkner, The Journal of the William Morris Society This book will be of interest to social and intellectual historians of the arts in interwar Britain and in the institutional promotion of the arts. It is an important contribution. The Historian An admirable study, wideranging, thoughtful in its treatment of crucial issues in modern art and culture, exemplary in its imaginative use of materials from the Pick archives. American Historical Review Saler's book, ought to make a permanent impact. It reveals, among other things, how much of the Medieval Modernist programme has been internalised by design historians and journalists. Crafts Magazine Read more...
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- Modernism (Art) -- England.
- Art, English -- 20th century.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- England -- History -- 20th century.
- Art, Modern -- 20th century -- England.
- Modernisme (cultuur)
- Avant-garde.
- Modernisme (art) -- Grande-Bretagne.
- Avant-garde (esthétique) -- Grande-Bretagne -- 20e siècle.
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