Insane Acquaintances: Visual Modernism and Public Taste in Britain, 1910-1951

by Daniel Moore

Insane Acquaintances explores a range of exhibitions, organisations and institutions that mediated and promoted modernism in Britain. In a series of case studies on subjects ranging from the first Postimpressionist exhibition in London in 1910, the teaching of modernist art in schools, the decoration and design of the modernist home, the International Surrealist exhibition in London in 1936 and the Festival of Britain in 1951, Insane Acquaintances...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197266754
• ISBN13: 9780197266755
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.3"