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Author Bird, Michael.

Title The St Ives artists : a biography of place and time / Michael Bird
Published Aldershot [England] ; Burlington, VT : Lund Humphries, 2008

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Description 192 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Introduction: outside the glass 9 -- Chapter 1 Arrival: 1946 16 -- Chapter 2 Artists and gentlemen: a short colonial history 22 -- Chapter 3 Connecting circles: a detour via Hampstead 37 -- Chapter 4 Leaders must migrate: St Ives 1938-45 48 -- Chapter 5 Landscape with wild men: the post-war influx 62 -- Chapter 6 Partisans: community politics in the early 1950s 80 -- Chapter 7 Getting social-personal: class and contacts 96 -- Chapter 8 Keep it real: trouble with abstraction 109 -- Chapter 9 Western horizons: views across the Atlantic, 1956-60 121 -- Chapter 10 Home ground: women artists in St Ives 138 -- Chapter 11 Spaced out: into the 1960s 153 -- Chapter 12 Terrible times together: the poetry of departures, 1965-75 169 -- Notes 180 -- Select bibliography 185
Summary "St Ives is unique in British art history. Between the Second World War and the 1970s, many progressive artists chose to work and often settle around this small port in the far west of Cornwall." "Michael Bird opens up new ground in exploring connections - often unexpected - between the St Ives artists and contemporary developments in society, literature and other fields. As the idealism of pre-war constructivism was transformed by St Ives artists in the post-war decades, he shows how local themes of landscape and community reflected much wider social and cultural changes during the Austerity era and beyond." "For the first time, this book fully integrates the St Ives artists into the cultural narrative of twentieth-century Britain, especially from the 1930s onwards. It ranges from the intense hopes that accompanied the Labour victory in 1945 to the explosion of consumerism and American influence in the 1950s, and beatnik youth culture of the 1960s - all of which connected interestingly with St Ives. The artists emerge as vivid and very different personalities, as often embroiled in conflict as in any shared artistic agenda." "Drawing on fresh research, Michael Bird has created a fascinating and highly readable account of St Ives and its artists. The question 'What was St Ives art really about?' is often asked. This book provides some authoritative, provocative and entertaining answers."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-187) and index
Subject Artist colonies -- England -- St. Ives (Cornwall)
Painters -- England -- St. Ives (Cornwall)
Painters -- England -- St. Ives (Cornwall) -- History.
Painting, English -- England -- St. Ives (Cornwall) -- 20th century.
SUBJECT St. Ives (Cornwall, England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80103996 -- In art. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011412
St. Ives (Cornwall, England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80103996 -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005642
LC no. 2007940992
ISBN 0853319561 (paperback)
9780853319566 (paperback)
Other Titles Saint Ives artists