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Church and patronage in 20th century Britain : Walter Hussey and the arts
- Title
- Church and patronage in 20th century Britain : Walter Hussey and the arts / Peter Webster.
- Author
- Webster, Peter, 1974-
- Publication
- London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, published by Springer nature, [2017]
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Details
- Description
- xii, 256 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm
- Summary
- This book is the first full-length treatment of Walter Hussey's work as a patron between 1943 and 1978, first for the Anglican parish church of St Matthew in Northampton, and then at Chichester Cathedral. He was responsible for the most significant sequence of works of art commissioned for the British churches in the twentieth century. They included music by Benjamin Britten, Leonard Bernstein and William Walton, visual art by Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland and Marc Chagall, and poetry by W. H. Auden. Placing Hussey in theological context and in a period of rapid cultural change, it explores the making and reception of the commissions, and the longer-term influence of his work, still felt today. As well as contributing to the religious and cultural history of Britain, and of Anglo-Catholicism and the cathedrals in particular, the book will be of interest to all those concerned with the relationship between theology and the arts, and to historians of music and the visual arts.
- Series Statement
- Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000
- Uniform Title
- Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-247) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The formation of a patron -- The 1943 Jubilee festival at Northampton -- Music, art and poetry: 1944-1955 -- The religion arts on a rising tide: people, media, networks -- new visual art for Chichester -- Chichester music -- Cathedral, city and diocese -- Legacy -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Call Number
- JQD 18-34
- ISBN
- 1137369094
- 9781137369093
- OCLC
- 996414806
- Author
- Webster, Peter, 1974- author.
- Title
- Church and patronage in 20th century Britain : Walter Hussey and the arts / Peter Webster.
- Publisher
- London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, published by Springer nature, [2017]
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-247) and index.
- Other Form:
- Electronic version: Webster, Peter, 1974- Church and patronage in 20th century Britain. London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, published by Springer nature, [2017] 9781137369109 (OCoLC)1012344270
- Research Call Number
- JQD 18-34