Modern life & modern subjects : British art in the early twentieth century
"In May 1914 the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London opened its exhibition Twentieth Century Art. The catalogue identified four main strands in modern painting but included a fifth group, of Jewish artists, hung in the 'Small Gallery.' In this illuminating book, art historian Lisa Tickner takes a fresh look at the work of artists from each to these strands. In a series of innovative case studies, combining analysis with substantial new research, she examines the artists' radical approaches to the process of painting, and their resources in the defining conditions of modern life."--Jacket
xiii, 336 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
9780300083507, 0300083505
43115046
Introduction: Twentieth-century art and the Whitechapel Exhibition of 1914
Walter Sickert: The Camden town murder and tabloid crime
Augustus John: Gypsies, tramps, and Lyric fantasy
Wyndham Lewis: Dance and the popular culture of Kermesse
Vanessa Bell: Studland Beach, domesticity and 'significant form'
David Bromberg: In the hold, Jews and Cubism
Afterword: Modernism and modernity
Appendix A: The Albert Hall Picture Ball, 1913
Appendix B: The Jewish section, 1914