British Art and the First World War, 1914-1924

AvJames Fox

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Del 43 i serien Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

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Beskrivning

The First World War is usually believed to have had a catastrophic effect on British art, killing artists and movements, and creating a mood of belligerent philistinism around the nation. In this book, however, James Fox paints a very different picture of artistic life in wartime Britain. Drawing on a wide range of sources, he examines the cultural activities of largely forgotten individuals and institutions, as well as the press and the government, in order to shed new light on art's unusual role in a nation at war. He argues that the conflict's artistic consequences, though initially disruptive, were ultimately and enduringly productive. He reveals how the war effort helped forge a much closer relationship between the British public and their art - a relationship that informed the country's cultural agenda well into the 1920s.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-07-30
Mått:181 x 253 x 17 mm
Vikt:690 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107105874

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James Fox is an art historian and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Educated at Cambridge and Harvard, he received his PhD in History of Art from the University of Cambridge in 2009 with a dissertation entitled 'Business unusual: art in Britain during the First World War, 1914-1918'. His research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Art Center at Yale University, and Churchill College, Cambridge. Fox has published widely on the cultural history of the First World War and modern British art and has presented papers on the subjects in Europe, the United States and Canada. Fox appears frequently in the media: he has written for The Times, The Telegraph and The Independent, and is a BAFTA- and Royal Television Society-nominated documentary filmmaker for the BBC. In 2014 he was selected as one of Apollo magazine's forty most influential young people in the art world.

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'James Fox has written an impeccably researched, original and stimulating account of British art and the First World War. This important study will change our understanding of the War's impact on the relationship between British art and British society and will open up significant new avenues of interpretation and research.' David Peters Corbett, editor of A Companion to British Art: 1600 to the Present

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. The outbreak of war and the business of art; 2. Perceptions of art; 3. The arts mobilize; 4. War pictures: truth, fiction, function; 5. Peace pictures: escapism, consolation, catharsis; 6. Art and society after the war; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.