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Charts the course of Modernism in Britain, from the 1914 Vorticist manifesto to the emergence of British Pop art in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The volume is the catalogue for an exhibition shown at the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago.

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Preface and Acknowledgments Kimerly Rorschagn From Blast to Pop Keith Hartley Catalogue of the Exhibition Richard A. Born Early Modernism: Abstraction, Primitivism, and Surrealism, 1915-1945 Academic Traditions: Realism and Figuration, 1920-1955 International Modernist Sculpture: Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and Robert Adams, 1930-1965 Postwar British Sculpture and the 1952 Venice Biennale: The "Iconography of Fear" 1950-1960 London-Paris-New York: From Existentialism and "L'Art Brut" to "The Aesthetics of Plenty" and Pop Art, 1945-1960 London-Paris-New York: Gestural Abstraction and Color Field Painting, 1955-1965 Notes Selected Bibliography Color Plates (following page 16)

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 9 January 1997
      ISBN-13 9780935573183
      978-0935573183
      ISBN-10 0935573186
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Charts the course of Modernism in Britain, from the 1914 Vorticist manifesto to the emergence of British Pop art in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The volume is the catalogue for an exhibition shown at the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago.

      Table of Contents
      Preface and Acknowledgments Kimerly Rorschagn From Blast to Pop Keith Hartley Catalogue of the Exhibition Richard A. Born Early Modernism: Abstraction, Primitivism, and Surrealism, 1915-1945 Academic Traditions: Realism and Figuration, 1920-1955 International Modernist Sculpture: Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and Robert Adams, 1930-1965 Postwar British Sculpture and the 1952 Venice Biennale: The "Iconography of Fear" 1950-1960 London-Paris-New York: From Existentialism and "L'Art Brut" to "The Aesthetics of Plenty" and Pop Art, 1945-1960 London-Paris-New York: Gestural Abstraction and Color Field Painting, 1955-1965 Notes Selected Bibliography Color Plates (following page 16)

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