The Avant-Garde in Interwar England: Medieval Modernism and the London Underground

by Michael T. Saler

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195147189
• ISBN13: 9780195147186
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"