Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper by Harris, Alexandra

Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper

In the 1930s and 1940s, while the battles for modern art and modern society were being fought...
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Author: Alexandra Harris
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Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper by Harris, Alexandra

Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper

$105.70

Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper

$105.70
Author: Alexandra Harris
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
In the 1930s and 1940s, while the battles for modern art and modern society were being fought in Paris and Spain, it seemed to some a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea shops.

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 émigré László 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.

Author: Alexandra Harris
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 11/01/2010
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.06lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.35w x 1.39d
ISBN: 9780500251713


Award: Guardian First Book Award - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2011

About the Author
Harris, Alexandra: - Alexandra Harris is a cultural historian and writer. She is the recipient of the Guardian First Book Award and a Somerset Maugham Award for Romantic Moderns. She is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in Oxford and Liverpool.

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