London, modernism, and 1914
By: edited by Michael J.K. Walsh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780521195805
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Arts and society; History; Literature and the war; Modernism (Art); Modernism (Literature)
Description: "The outbreak of the First World War coincided with the beginnings of high modernism in literature and the visual arts to make 1914 a pivotal moment in cultural as in national history. Yeats, Wyndham Lewis, Gaudier-Breszka, Sickert, Epstein and many other avant-garde artists were at work in London during 1914, responding to urgent political as well as aesthetic problems. London was the setting for key exhibitions of high modernist paintings and sculptures, and home to a number of important movements: the Bloomsbury Group, the Whitechapel Boys and the Vorticists among them. These original essays collectively portray a dynamic, remarkable year in the city's art world, whose creative tensions and conflicts were rocked by the declaration of war. A bold, innovative account of the time and place that formed the genesis of modernism, this book suggests new routes through the fields of modernist art and literature."--Inner jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-291)and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction :; title: avant-garde and avant-guerre  -- Michael J.K. Walsh; title: 'A campaign of extermination' :; title: Walter Sickert and modernism in London in 1914  -- Johathan Shirland; title: W.B. Yeats in 1914 :; title: a cosmopolitan modernist and the 'great menace' of nationalism  -- Louise Blakeney Williams; title: Jacob Epstein's Rock drill :; title: man and machine  -- Andrew Causey; title: Conflict 'resolution' :; title: Wyndham Lewis's Blasts at war  -- David A. Wragg; title: 'Something is happening there' :; title: early British modernism, the Great War and the 'Whitechapel Boys'  -- Sarah MacDougall; title: Inventing literary modernism at the outbreak of the Great War  -- Pericles Lewis; title: 'Touching civilisation in its tender mood' :; title: nationalism and art in the friendship between Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Edward Wadsworth, 1914-1915  -- Jonathan Black; title: Remembrance/reconstruction :; title: autobiography and the men of 1914  -- Deborah Parsons; title: Around the galleries :; title: art exhibitions in London in 1914 through the eyes of the critics  -- Dominika Buchowska; title: Rewriting 1914 :; title: the Slade, Tonks, and war in Pat Barker's Life class -- Alan Munton.