Research Catalog

Title

Insiders outsiders : refugees from Nazi Europe and their contribution to British visual culture / edited by Monica Bohm-Duchen ; foreword by Sir Norman Rosenthal.

Publication

• London : Lund Humphries, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bohm-Duchen, Monica
• Rosenthal, Norman

Description

255 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm

Summary

Insiders/Outsiders', published to accompany a UK-wide arts festival of the same name in 2019, examines the extraordinarily rich and pervasive contribution of refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe to the visual culture, art education and art-world structures of the United Kingdom. In every field, emigres arriving from Europe in the 1930s - supported by a small number of like-minded individuals already resident in the UK - introduced a professionalism, internationalism and bold avant-gardism to a British art world not known for these attributes. 0At a time when the issue of immigration is much debated, the book serves as a reminder of the importance of cultural cross-fertilization and of the deep, long-lasting and wide-ranging contribution that refugees make to British life.00Exhibition: Arts festival throughout Britain (May 2019 - May 2020).

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Jewish refugees > Great Britain
• Jewish artists > Great Britain
• Art, British > 20th century > European influences
• Europeans > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• Refugees as artists > Great Britain
• Expatriate artists > Great Britain
• Art, British > European influences. > 20th century
• Refugees as artists
• Expatriate artists
• Jewish refugees
• Jewish artists
• Europeans
• Jews, European > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• Art and Design
• Great Britain
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-248) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Sir Norman Rosenthal -- Introduction / Daniel Snowman -- Accents in Art: Émigré Painters and Sculptors in Britain after 1933 / Monica Bohm-Duchen -- Refugees from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Architecture Alan Powers -- Émigré Designers / Anna Nyburg -- Émigré Photographers / Michael Berkowitz -- 'Seen by the eye and felt by the heart: TheÉmigrés as Art Teachers / Sarah Macdougall -- The Reimann School and Studios, London 1937-41 / Swantje Kuhfuss-Wickenheiser -- 'A very specialized subject' Art History in Britain / Hans Christian Hönes -- Refugee Picture Restorers in the United Kingdom / Morwenna Blewett -- Émigré Art Publishers / Anna Nyburg -- Picture Post: 'Strongly political and anti-Fascist' / Amanda Hopkinson -- Émigré Art Dealers and Collectors / Richard Aronowitz with Shauna Isaac -- A Short History of Leicester's Early Twentieth-Century German Art Collection / Simon Lake -- 'Our horizon is the barbed wire' Artistic Life in the British Internment Camps / Rachel Dickson -- Modernist Sanctuary: Hampstead in the 1930s and 1940s / Monica Bohm-Duchen -- The Law Road Flats / Leyla Daybelge -- Roland Penrose: 'Changez la Vie' / Antony Penrose -- Herbert Read: The Eye of the Storm / Michael Paraskos -- An Unconventional Couple: Diana and Fred Uhlman and their Support for Exiled Artists / Anna Müller-Härlin -- George Bell and the Art of Refugees from Totalitarian Europe / Andrew Chandler -- The Contribution of German-Speaking Refugee Artists to British Wartime Propaganda / Charmian Brinson -- Not Only Biographies: A Brief Institutional History of German and Austrian Exiled Artist Groups / Keith Holz -- Artists, Refugees and the Festival of Britain -- Chronology of Key Events 1933-51 -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors' Biographies -- Index -- Image Credits -- Acknowledgements [sic].

ISBN

• 9781848223462
• 1848223463

LCCN

2019401531

OCLC

• on1057764302
• 1057764302
• SCSB-9413559

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library