London, Modernism, and 1914Michael J. K. Walsh Cambridge University Press, 2010 M05 6 - 294 páginas 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-Breszka, Sickert, Epstein and many other avant-garde artists were at work in London during 1914, responding to urgent political as well as aesthetic problems. London was the setting for key exhibitions of high modernist paintings and sculptures, and home to a number of important movements: the Bloomsbury Group, the Whitechapel Boys and the Vorticists among them. The essays in this 2010 book collectively portray a dynamic, remarkable year in the city's art world, whose creative tensions and conflicts were rocked by the declaration of 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. |
Contenido
avantgarde and avantguerre | 1 |
Walter Sickert and modernism in London in 1914 | 20 |
a cosmopolitan modernist and the great menace of nationalism | 41 |
man and machine | 78 |
Wyndham Lewiss Blasts at war | 101 |
early British modernism the Great War and the Whitechapel Boys | 122 |
Chapter 6 Inventing literary modernism at the outbreak of the Great War | 148 |
nationalism and art in the friendship between Henri GaudierBrzeska and Edward Wadsworth 19141915 | 165 |
autobiography and the men of 1914 | 196 |
art exhibitions in London in 1914 through the eyes of the critics | 214 |
the Slade Tonks and war in Pat Barkers Life Class | 240 |
Appendix | 272 |
Bibliography | 276 |
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