Blast to freeze : British art in the 20th century /

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Other Authors / Creators:Hughes, Henry Meyric.
Tuyl, Gijs van.
Other Corporate Authors / Creators:Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg.
Abattoirs (Museum complex)
Format: Book
Language:English
German
French
Imprint: Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany : Hatje Cantz ; New York : D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers [distributor in the U.S.], [2002]
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Table of Contents:
  • THE SHORT CENTURY
  • Fog in the channel: the British dialogue with modernism / Robert Hewison
  • 1910-20: VORTICISM, FIRST WORLD WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH
  • Blast, armageddon and aftermath / Richard Cork
  • 1920-40: PRIMITIVISM, ABSTRACTION AND SURREALISM
  • Direct carving and the notion of a "modern British sculpture." International or insular? Modern or traditional? / Penelope Curtis
  • Going modern and being British: the challenge of the 1930s / Jeremy Lewison
  • 1940-50: SECOND WORLD WAR, ISOLATION AND EXISTENTIAL CONCERNS
  • Apokalyptic visions: British art in the 1940s and 1950s / David Alan Mellor
  • 1950-60: BRAVE NEW WORLDS, ABSTRACTION AND THE AESTHETICS OF PLENTY
  • "We are the masters now": modernism and reconstruction in post-war Britian / Christopher Stephens
  • Forbidden conversations: the independent group, modernism, urban reality and American mass culture / Anne Massey
  • 1960-65: POP, OP AND HARD EDGE
  • Open situations: British abstraction in the 1960s / Tim Marlow
  • Pop Art / Marco Livingstone
  • 1965-80: COUNTERCULTURE AND THE "NEW ART"
  • Everything: a view on a developing counterculture in the mid 1960s in London / Andrew Wilson
  • Crisis of modernism / Charles Harrison
  • Artists' film in Britain: six moments / David Curtis
  • British performance: an incorrect view / Anthony Howell
  • 1980-90: PAINTING, OBJECTS AND INSTALLATIONS
  • Persistence of painting: contexts for British figurative painting, 1975-90 / James Hyman
  • "New British sculpture" of the 1980s / Andrew Causey
  • Freeze and its aftermath / Richard Shone
  • GENERAL THEMES
  • British art schools and the influence of art education in the twentieth century / Nick de Ville
  • "Strange patronage": promoting twentieth century British art / Margaret Garlake
  • Role of the critic / Norbert Lynton.