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Author Saler, Michael T., 1960-

Title The avant-garde in interwar England : medieval modernism and the London underground / Michael T. Saler
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) : illustrations
Series OUP E-Books
Contents 1 Framing the Picture; 2 A "Warrior of the Kingdom": Frank Pick's City of Dreams, 1878-1915; 3 Making It New: Modernism and the North of England; 4 Morris, the Machine, and Modernism, 1915-1934; 5 The Earthly Paradise of the London Underground; 6 Educating the Consumer; 7 The Return of the Bathing Beauties, 1936-1941; 8 The Demise of Medieval Modernism; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary This text 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 book explores the life of Frank Pick, managing director of the London Underground
Analysis Humaniora Kunst
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-233) and index
Notes English
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Subject Modernism (Art) -- England
Art, English -- 20th century
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- England -- History -- 20th century
ART -- European.
Art, English
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Modernism (Art)
England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 98010996
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