Postwar Modern by Jane Alison
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.
JANE ALISON is Head of Visual Arts at the Barbican Centre in London, a position she has held since 2013. Past exhibitions include Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde (2018) and The Surreal House: Architecture of Desire (2010).
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| ISBN 13 | 9783791379357 |
| ISBN 10 | 3791379356 |
| Title | Postwar Modern |
| Author | Jane Alison |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Prestel |
| Year published | 2022-05-20 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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