Research Catalog

Title

Modern times : British prints, 1913-1939 / Jennifer Farrell ; with contributions by Gillian Forrester and Rachel Mustalish.

Author

Farrell, Jennifer (Jennifer E.), 1970-

Publication

• New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2021]
• ©2021

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Additional Authors

• Mustalish, Rachel,
• Forrester, Gillian,
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Description

200 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 26 cm

Summary

Throughout the tumultuous decades of the early twentieth century, the graphic arts flourished in Great Britain as artists sought to portray everyday life during the machine age. This richly illustrated volume reintroduces rare print works from the collection of Leslie and Johanna Garfield into the narrative of modernism, demonstrating their relationship to other movements such as Cubism, Futurism, and Constructivism. Essays explore how artists turned to printmaking to alleviate trauma, memorialize their wartime experiences, and capture the aspirations and fears of the twenties and thirties. Special attention is given to the linocut technique revolutionized by Claude Flight and his students at London's Grosvenor School of Modern Art. Highlighted as well are the pioneering works of artists such as C. R. W. Nevinson, Sybil Andrews, Cyril E. Power, Paul Nash, Edward Wadsworth, Edith Lawrence, Ursula Fookes, and Lill Tschudi. In their quest to promote a more democratic art, these artists created innovative graphics that portrayed in subject, form, material, and technique the dynamic era in which they lived.

Subject

• Garfield, Leslie J., 1932- > Art collections > Exhibitions
• Garfield, Johanna > Art collections > Exhibitions
• Garfield, Johanna
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) > Exhibitions
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
• 1900-1999
• Prints, British > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Drawing, British > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Art > Private collections
• Drawing, British
• Prints, British

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "This catalogue is published in conjunction with Modern Times: British Prints, 1913 - 1939, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from November 1, 2021, to January 9, 2022." -- Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-195) and index.

Contents

Forces in flux : transformation and experimentation in British printmaking -- The shadow line : British printmakers and the first World War -- The art of to-day : British modernist linocuts in the interwar years -- Capturing modern life : Cyril E. Power's The Eight from sketch to print.

ISBN

• 1588397394
• 9781588397393

LCCN

• 2021425235
• 99989502710

OCLC

• on1245473724
• 1245473724

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries