A crisis of brilliance
Subtitle: five young British artists and the Great War
By: David Boyd Haycock
Publisher: Old Street; Old Street Publishing Limited
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9781906964320
Subjects: Artists; British Art; Themes, motives; Intellectual life
Description: "Stanley Spencer, Paul Nash, Mark Gertler, Richard Nevinson and Dora Carrington were five of the most exciting, influential and innovative British artists of the twentieth century. From diverse backgrounds, they met in the years before the Great War as students at the Slade School of Art ... To the Bloomsbury group critic Roger Fry they were 'les jeunes'--the 'young British artists' of their day. As their talents evolved, they became futurists, vorticists, and 'Bloomsberries', and befriended the leading writers and intellectuals of the time, from Virginia Woolf and Rupert Brooke to D.H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield. They led the way in fashion with their avant garde clothes and haircuts ... their tempestuous love affairs descended into obsession, murder and suicide. And a Europe plunged into the madness of war, they responded to its horror with all the passion and genius they could muster."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Originally published: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Stanley Spencer; title: Mark Gertler and Henry Tonks; title: Richard Nevinson; title: 'The Slade Coster Gang'; title: Paul Nash and Dora Carrington; title: Roger Fry and the post-impressionists; title: 'This anarchic & egoistical condition'; title: 'That awful ghost Tonks'; title: 'The din of happiness'; title: 'A most wonderful country'; title: Eddie Marsh and Les Jeunes; title: 'Georgian painters'; title: 'No ordinary war'; title: 'A valuable man'; title: 'Ever busy yet ever at rest'; title: 'Strident lies and foul death'; title: War artists; title: Armistice; title: Epilogue: 'Another life, another world'.