London, Modernism, and 1914
ISBN: 9780521195805 | 0521195802
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 6/7/2010
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These original essays portray a remarkable year in the city's art world, whose creative tensions and conflicts were rocked by the war. A bold, innovative account of the time and place that formed the genesis of modernism, this book suggests new routes through the fields of modernist art and literature.
The outbreak of the First World War coincided with the beginnings of high modernism in literature and the visual arts to make 1914 a pivotal moment in cultural as in national history. Yeats, Wyndham Lewis, Gaudier-Br... MORE
The outbreak of the First World War coincided with the beginnings of high modernism in literature and the visual arts to make 1914 a pivotal moment in cultural as in national history. Yeats, Wyndham Lewis, Gaudier-Br... MORE
| Illustrations | p. vii |
| Contributors | p. viii |
| Acknowledgements | p. xi |
| Foreword: art and premonition | p. xv |
| Introduction: avant-garde and avant-guerre | p. 1 |
| 'A campaign of extermination': Walter Sickert and modernism in London in 1914 | p. 20 |
| W. B. Yeats in 1914: a cosmopolitan modernist and the 'great menace' of nationalism | p. 41 |
| Jacob Epstein's Rock Drill: man and m... MORE | p. 78 |
| Conflict 'resolution': Wyndham Lewis's Blasts at war | p. 101 |
| 'Something is happening there': early British modernism, the Great War and the 'Whitechapel Boys' | p. 122 |
| Inventing literary modernism at the outbreak of the Great War | p. 148 |
| 'Touching civilisation in its tender mood': nationalism and art in the friendship between Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Edward Wadsworth, 1914-1915 | p. 165 |
| Remembrance/reconstruction: autobiography and the men of 1914 | p. 196 |
| Around the galleries: art exhibitions in London in 1914 through the eyes of the critics | p. 214 |
| Rewriting 1914: the Slade, Tonks, and war in Pat Barker's Life Class | p. 240 |
| Appendix | p. 272 |
| Bibliography | p. 276 |
| Index | p. 292 |
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Michael J. K. Walsh is Associate Professor of Art History at the Eastern Mediterranean University, northern Cyprus.
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