British art in the cultural field, 1939-69 / edited by Lisa Tickner, David Peters Corbett.
Series: Art history special issuesPublication details: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.Description: 277 p. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN:- 9781118275849
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709.410904 RAE Vision: 50 years of british creativity | 709.410904 ROT British art since 1900 / | 709.410904 SPA British art since 1900 / | 709.410904 TIC British art in the cultural field, 1939-69 / | 709.410904 WAI Phenomenal difference : a philosophy of black British art / | 709.4109043 MEL A Paradise lost : the neo-romantic imagination in Britain 1935- 55 / | 709.4109045 GAR New art, new world : British art in postwar society / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1. Being British and Going ... Somewhere -- Chapter 2. 'The morrow we left behind': Landscape and the Rethinking of Modernism, 1939-53 -- Chapter 3. Sculpture for the Hand: Herbert Read in the Studio of Kurt Schwitters -- Chapter 4. Science, Art and Landscape in the Nuclear Age -- Chapter 5. Photography into Building in Post-war Architecture: The Smithsons and James Stirling -- Chapter 6. Realism, Brutalism, Pop (Alex Potts) -- Chapter 7. The Independent Group's 'Anthropology of Ourselves' -- Chapter 8. Dada's Mama: Richard Hamilton's Queer Pop -- Chapter 9. Francis Bacon: Painting after Photography -- Chapter 10. Vulgar Pictures: Bacon, de Kooning, and the Figure under Abstraction -- Chapter 11.'Export Britain': Pop Art, Mass Culture and the Export Drive -- Chapter 12. Painting and Sculpture of a Decade '54-'64 Revisited -- Chapter 13. Varieties of Belatedness and Provincialism: Decolonization and British Pop (Leon Wainwright) -- Index.
Informed by new research, this rich collection of thought-provoking essays presents a fresh assessment of British Art in the Cultural Field, 1939-69, locating influential artists, movements, institutions, and individual works against the changing economic and cultural landscape to shed new light on this seminal period in British art history. International art historians explore many different aspects of the period which saw post-war austerity, decolonisation, and the birth of postmodernism Takes a variety of approaches, from the broad canvas of the political economy of art to closely attentive readings of individual artists and works, from Bacon to Stirling, and the Independent Group to Pop Art Invaluable for students and scholars of the field, as well as general readers, including the growing number of collectors of twentieth-century British art.