Insane Acquaintances

Visual Modernism and Public Taste in Britain, 1910-1951

By:

Daniel Moore

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Hardback

Series:

British Academy Monographs

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Insane Acquaintances explores a range of exhibitions, organisations and institutions that mediated and promoted modernism in Britain. In a series of case studies on subjects ranging from the first Postimpressionist exhibition in London in 1910, the teaching of modernist art in schools, the decoration and design of the modernist home, the International Surrealist exhibition in London in 1936 and the Festival of Britain in 1951, Insane Acquaintances charts some of the ways in which modernism not only sought to improve the quality of art but also the quality of art's reception in Britain. It also provides an institutional history of some of the groups and organisations that fostered modernist art in Britain during that period.

Author Biography:

Daniel Moore is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, having previously been a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow there. He works on late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century British artistic and literary cultures, and he has published on Ford Madox Ford, Henry James, Vernon Lee and D. H. Lawrence amongst others. His is currently Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies, and the Lead Editor of the journal Modernist Cultures.

Release date Australia

August 20th, 2020

Author

Daniel Moore

Series

British Academy Monographs

Pages

208

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

21 illustrations with 8pp colour plate section

Dimensions

163x241x19

ISBN-13

9780197266755

Product ID

33587895

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