Research Catalog

Title

Modern Britain 1900-1960 / Ted Gott, Laurie Benson and Sophie Matthieson.

Author

Gott, Ted, 1960-

Publication

Melbourne, Vic. : National Gallery of Victoria ; Hove : Roundhouse [distributor], 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Benson, Laurie.
• Matthieson, Sophie.

Description

p. cm.

Summary

'Modern Britain 1900-1960' presents a panoramic survey of 250 masterworks by 93 artists and traces the development of British art over six decades of tremendous change and innovation.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Art, British > 20th century

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Director's foreword / Gerard Vaughan -- Modern Britain 1900-1960 -- Modern Britain in Australia / Gerard Vaughan -- Framing Modern Britain -- Edwardians -- Bloomsbury and Roger Fry -- Camden Town -- Gwen John and Augustus John -- John, Innes, Lees -- Blasted visions -- Walter Sickert -- The exuberant landscape -- The Seven and Five Society -- Setting the pace -- The changing face -- Glyn Philpot -- L.S. Lowry -- The nude -- Stanley Spencer -- Religious visions -- Australian surrealists -- Paul Nash -- Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson -- Art and design -- Cornwall -- John Tunnard -- Second World War -- Tristram Hillier -- Ivon Hitchens -- Neo-romanticism -- William Roberts -- Aftermath -- Exhibition checklist -- Selected bibliography.
• Bloomsbury group -- Roger Fry -- Gwen John -- Augustus John -- James Dickson Innes -- Derwent Lees -- Walter Sickert -- Glyn Philpot -- L.S. Lowry -- Stanley Spencer -- Paul Nash -- Henry Moore -- Barbara Hepworth -- Ben Nicholson -- John Tunnard -- Tristram Hillier -- Ivon Hitchens -- William Roberts.

ISBN

• 9780724102921 (pbk.)
• 0724102922 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 192027510
• SCSB-10472281

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library