The Avant-Garde in Interwar England: Medieval Modernism and the London Underground

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The Avant-Garde in Interwar England: Medieval Modernism and the London Underground Michael T.The Avant-Garde in Interwar ... Textbook Saler
Type:	eBook
Released:	1999
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Page Count:	258
Format:	pdf
Language:	English
ISBN-10:	0195119665
ISBN-13:	9780195119664

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. Author 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.