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The Avant-Garde in Interwar England addresses modernism's ties to tradition, commerce, nationalism, and spirituality through an analysis of the assimilation of visual modernism in England between 1910 and 1939. During this period, a debate raged across the nation concerning the purpose of art in society. On one side were the aesthetic formalists, led by members of London's Bloomsbury Group, who thought art was autonomous from everyday life.
On the other were England's so-called medieval modernists, many of them from the provincial North, who maintained that art had direct social functions and moral consequences. As Michael T. Saler demonstrates in this volume, the heated exchange between these two camps would ultimately set the terms for how modern art was perceived by the British public. The Avant-Garde in Interwar England will appeal to students of modernism, twentieth-century art, the cultural history of England, and urban history.
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Art, English, Avant-garde (Aesthetics), English Art, History, Modernism (Art), Arts, great britain, Art, modern, 20th centuryPlaces
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The Avant-Garde in Interwar England: Medieval Modernism and the London Underground
April 28, 2001, Oxford University Press, USA
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The avant-garde in interwar England: medieval modernism and the London underground
1999, Oxford University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-233) and index.
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"THIS IS THE STORY OF HOW THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY English arts and crafts merged with the twentieth-century avant-garde, romantic medievalism with visual modernism, "functionalism" with "formalism.""
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