
The Reconciliation of Modernism
Ceri Richards and the second generation, 1930-1945
Dafydd W. Jones(Author)
University of Wales Press
Published on 15. September 2024
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-1-83772-144-3 (ISBN)
Description
Modern art in Britain during the early twentieth century is a complex and compromised proposition. It has frequently appeared selective in its assimilation (or rejection) of European modernism, with the results proving uneven and sometimes flawed in coherence as well as quality - from an international outlook to a reductive vorticist blast, from an insular 'English' modernism to a purist abstraction, from a British neo-romanticism to an earnest accommodation of French surrealism. This book reads critically the context of modernist visual art in the interwar, conceding ultimately to the absence of one representative manifestation in order to account for circuits of ruptures and seizures from which emerge singular instances negotiating the radically new European modernism. The emergence of Ceri Richards as a modernist of remarkable originality in London between the wars poses one such singularity, setting the artist as focus for the present study in critical analysis of a globally trenchant avant-garde and aspects of art in Britain read as tributary to the greater European exchange.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wales
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
646 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83772-144-3 (9781837721443)
DOI
10.1234/b11595
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Dafydd W. Jones is an academic writer and editor. His books include Dada 1916 in Theory: Practices of Critical Resistance and The Fictions of Arthur Cravan: Poetry, Boxing and Revolution.
Content
Foreword
Introduction
1 The Modern Artist
2 Europe and the Avant-Garde
3 Objective Abstraction
4 Subject and Object
5 Surrealism
6 Studies for Relief Constructions
7 Figures and Interiors
8 Flowers, Feathers and Bombs
9 Transformations and Flux
Conclusion
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Index?
Introduction
1 The Modern Artist
2 Europe and the Avant-Garde
3 Objective Abstraction
4 Subject and Object
5 Surrealism
6 Studies for Relief Constructions
7 Figures and Interiors
8 Flowers, Feathers and Bombs
9 Transformations and Flux
Conclusion
Select references
Index?