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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450356403321

Autore

Saler Michael T. <1960->

Titolo

The avant-garde in interwar England : medieval modernism and the London underground / / Michael T. Saler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1999

©1999

ISBN

1-60256-276-8

1-280-47136-0

0-19-802812-1

0-19-534906-7

1-60256-808-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 242p. ) : ill., facsim., port

Disciplina

709/.42/09041

Soggetti

Modernism (Art) - England

Art, English - 20th century

Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - England - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- 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.

Sommario/riassunto

This text is an analysis of the assimilation of visual modernism in England between 1910 and 1939 and looks at, in detail, the life of Frank Pick, director of the London Underground.