Michael T. Saler: The Avant-Garde in Interwar England: Medieval Modernism and the London Underground (1999)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, art, art criticism, art history, avant-garde, united kingdom
This book addresses modernism’s ties to tradition, commerce, nationalism, and spirituality through an analysis of the assimilation of visual modernism in England between 1910 and 1939. Specifically, The Avant-Garde in Interwar England explores the life of Frank Pick, managing director of the London Underground, whose patronage of modern artists, architects, and designers was guided by a desire to unite nineteenth-century arts and crafts with twentieth-century industry and mass culture. Saler demonstrates that modernism was widely associated in England with medievalism, and was also thought to have direct social, economic, and spiritual benefits for the nation.
Publisher Oxford University Press, 1999
ISBN 0195119665, 9780195119664
242 pages
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Comment (0)De Stijl magazine (1917-1921) [Dutch]
Filed under magazine | Tags: · architecture, art, art criticism, art theory, avant-garde, de stijl, literature, neoplasticism, painting, poetry
De Stijl, Dutch for “The Style”, also known as neoplasticism, was a Dutch artistic movement founded in 1917. In a narrower sense, the term De Stijl is used to refer to a body of work from 1917 to 1931 founded in the Netherlands. De Stijl is also the name of a journal that was published by the Dutch painter, designer, writer, and critic Theo van Doesburg (1883–1931), propagating the group’s theories. Though the magazine never sold more than 300 copies, it had a strong influence on art in the Netherlands and abroad.
De Stijl: Maanblad gewijd aan de moderne beeldende vakken en kultuur
Edited by Theo van Doesburg
Published in Delft (1917-18) and Leiden (1918-21)
John E. Bowlt (ed.): Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism, 1902-1934 (1976)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, art history, art theory, avant-garde, constructivism, futurism, proletkult, russia, socialist realism, suprematism
Statements by Russian artists and critics presented together with concise commentaries reveal the problems and ideology of early-twentieth-century Russian art.
Translated by John E. Bowlt
Publisher Viking Press, 1976
The Documents of 20th-Century Art series
ISBN 067061257X, 9780670612574
360 pages
Review: Robert C. Williams (Slavic Review 1977).
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