New art, new world : British art in postwar society / Margaret Garlake.

Main entry:

Garlake, Margaret.

Title & Author:

New art, new world : British art in postwar society / Margaret Garlake.

Publication:

Description:

vii, 279 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-271) and index.
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 Art.

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 accorded to British art by the early 1960s. This book sets the visual arts in the social and political context of these complex years.

ISBN:

0300072929 (cloth)
9780300072921 (cloth)

Subject:

Art, British 20th century.
Artists Great Britain Psychology.
Art and society Great Britain History 20th century.
Art, British.
Art Great Britain 20th century.
Art britannique.
Art Grande-Bretagne 20e siècle.
Artistes Grande-Bretagne Psychologie.
Art et société Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Art britannique 20e siècle.
Art
Art and society
Artists Psychology
Beeldende kunsten.
Great Britain

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 200380
Call No.: N6768 .G34 1998
Status: Available

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