British art in the cultural field, 1939-69 / edited by Lisa Tickner and David Peters Corbett.
Published / Created:
Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, ♭2012.
Physical Description:
278 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Originally published as Volume 35, Issue 2 of Art History"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Notes on Contributors -- 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.
Subject Terms:
Art, British -- 20th century.
Contributors:
Tickner, Lisa, editor of compilation. | Peters Corbett, David, 1956– editor of compilation.