New art, new world : British art in postwar society / Margaret Garlake.
New art, new world : British art in postwar society / Margaret Garlake.
New art, new world : British art in postwar society / Margaret Garlake.
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Publisher
New Haven : Published for Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, c1998.
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NQ709.4109044/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
vii, 279 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Contents
1. 1940-1960: Defining a Period -- 2. Benefactors and Bureaucrats: The Art Support System -- 3. Critical Dilemmas -- 4. Nation and Tradition -- 5. Rebuilding Arcadia: Art in Wartime -- 6. Geometry and Gesture: Process-Dominant Art -- 7. The City -- 8. Landscape -- 9. Images of the Body -- 10. Public...
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Publisher
New Haven : Published for Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, c1998.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
c1998.
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Summary
In the years following World War II, Britain was plagued by privation, austerity and humiliation from the loss of colonial territories and political power. At the same time, the country experienced a dawning triumphalism, articulated in the Festival of Britain, symbolised in the new Coventry Cathedral, and affirmed by the international status accor...
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New art, new world : British art in postwar society / Margaret Garlake.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-271) and index.
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c1998.
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NQ709.4109044/1
Record Identifier
74Vvz27gWwOl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvz27gWwOl
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ISBN
0300072929 (cloth)
9780300072921 (cloth)
DDC
709.4109044
MMS ID
991009269489702626
