Modern Life & Modern Subjects
Modern Life & Modern Subjects
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This is catalogue for the Whitechapel Gallery's "Twentieth-Century Art" exhibition identifies four main strands in modern painting, and a fifth strand of Jewish artists. It takes a fresh look at artists from each of these strands, highlighting their radical approaches to the painting process.
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Modern Life & Modern Subjects by Lisa Tickner
In May 1914 the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London opened its exhibition of “Twentieth-Century Art.” The catalogue identified four main strands in modern painting but included a fifth group of Jewish artists, hung in the “Small Gallery.” In this illuminating book art historian Lisa Tickner takes a fresh look at the work of artists from each of these strands. In a series of innovative case studies, combining analysis with substantial new research, she examines the artists’ radical approaches to the process of painting and their resources in the defining conditions of modern life. Tickner discusses Walter Sickert’s Camden Town Murder and L’Affaire de Camden Town in the context of tabloid crime. Augustus John’s Lyric Fantasy is seen as rooted in, but also as qualifying, the Edwardian fascination with gypsies and tramping while memorializing John’s dead wife, Ida. The studies for Wyndham Lewis’s lost Kermesse are connected to popular dance and to his sense of the "wild body." Vanessa Bell’s Studland Beach is related to the emergence of the beach as a social and psychic space and to childhood summers in St. Ives drawn on by her sister, Virginia Woolf, in To the Lighthouse. And David Bomberg’s In the Hold, along with Mark Gertler’s Jewish Family, is shown to emerge from contemporary debates surrounding Jewish art and the possibility of a secular, urban, Yiddish culture. In an extended Afterword, Tickner considers the interplay between modernism and modernity in British art before 1914. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Lisa Tickner is professor of art history at Middlesex University, London, and author of The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907–1914.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780300083507 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300083505 |
| Title | Modern Life & Modern Subjects |
| Author | Lisa Tickner |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 2000-06-10 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |