Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain, 1945-1965
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Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain, 1945-1965
W035934 | $60.00 / 10% library disc.
Exhibition Catalog
Ed. by Jane Alison et al. Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2022. Published by Prestel Verlag, Munich.
352 pp. 250 ills. 31 x 25 cm. In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9783791379357
Spanning painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and photography, Postwar Modern will explore a rich field of experiment which challenges the idea that Britain was a cultural backwater at this time. Through new texts by Jane Alison, Hilary Floe, Ben Highmore, Hammad Nassar and Greg Salter, the book looks afresh at celebrated artists such as Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Lucian Freud and Eduardo Paolozzi, shown in dialogue with lesser-known figures. These will include those, like Francis Newton Souza, Avinash Chandra and Robert Adams, who were acclaimed by contemporaries but neglected in subsequent history-making; others, like Kim Lim, Anwar Jalal Shemza and Franciszka Themerson, are only now attracting the attention they deserve. Throughout their work, vital shared preoccupations become visible: gender, class, race and nationhood; the body, the bombsite, and the home. It is a period resonating strongly with our own: as the UK emerges from more than a decade of austerity and confronts the challenges of post-pandemic reconstruction, society is asking similarly deep questions about who we want and need to be.
Subject Headings: Eastern and Western European Art ; Western Art -- Great Britain -- Post-1945 -- Several Fine Arts Media (Western) --
W035934 | $60.00 / 10% library disc.
Exhibition Catalog
Ed. by Jane Alison et al. Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2022. Published by Prestel Verlag, Munich.
352 pp. 250 ills. 31 x 25 cm. In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9783791379357
Spanning painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and photography, Postwar Modern will explore a rich field of experiment which challenges the idea that Britain was a cultural backwater at this time. Through new texts by Jane Alison, Hilary Floe, Ben Highmore, Hammad Nassar and Greg Salter, the book looks afresh at celebrated artists such as Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Lucian Freud and Eduardo Paolozzi, shown in dialogue with lesser-known figures. These will include those, like Francis Newton Souza, Avinash Chandra and Robert Adams, who were acclaimed by contemporaries but neglected in subsequent history-making; others, like Kim Lim, Anwar Jalal Shemza and Franciszka Themerson, are only now attracting the attention they deserve. Throughout their work, vital shared preoccupations become visible: gender, class, race and nationhood; the body, the bombsite, and the home. It is a period resonating strongly with our own: as the UK emerges from more than a decade of austerity and confronts the challenges of post-pandemic reconstruction, society is asking similarly deep questions about who we want and need to be.
Subject Headings: Eastern and Western European Art ; Western Art -- Great Britain -- Post-1945 -- Several Fine Arts Media (Western) --
