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Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
by Harris, Alexandra
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Overview
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Alexandra Harris tells a different story: eclectically, passionately, wittily, urgently, English artists were exploring what it meant to be alive at that moment and in England. They showed that "the modern" need not be at war with the past: constructivists and conservatives could work together, and even the Bauhaus migr L szl Moholy-Nagy was beguiled into taking photos for Betjeman's nostalgic An Oxford University Chest.
A rich network of personal and cultural encounters was the backdrop for a modern English renaissance. This great imaginative project was shared by writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics, and composers. Piper abandoned purist abstracts to make collages on the blustery coast; Virginia Woolf wrote in her last novel about a village pageant on a showery summer day. Evelyn Waugh, Elizabeth Bowen, and the Sitwells are also part of the story, along with Bill Brandt and Graham Sutherland, Eric Ravilious and Cecil Beaton.
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: Harris, Alexandra
- ISBN: 9780500251713
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 9.27 x 1.39
- Number Of Pages: 320
- Publication Year: 2010
Language:
English