Research Catalog

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Description

1. 386 p : ill; 20 cm.

Summary

1. "Stanley Spencer, Paul Nash, Mark Gertler, Richard Nevinson and Dora Carrington were five of the most exciting, influential and innovative British artists of the twentieth century. From diverse backgrounds, they met in the years before the Great War as students at the Slade School of Art ... To the Bloomsbury group critic Roger Fry they were 'les jeunes'--the 'young British artists' of their day. As their talents evolved, they became futurists, vorticists, and 'Bloomsberries', and befriended the leading writers and intellectuals of the time, from Virginia Woolf and Rupert Brooke to D.H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield. They led the way in fashion with their avant garde clothes and haircuts ... their tempestuous love affairs descended into obsession, murder and suicide. And a Europe plunged into the madness of war, they responded to its horror with all the passion and genius they could muster."--P. [4] of cover.

Subject

1. Artists -- Great Britain.
2. Art, British -- 20th century.
3. Art, British -- 20th century -- Themes, motives.
4. London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.

Contents

1. Stanley Spencer -- Mark Gertler and Henry Tonks -- Richard Nevinson -- 'The Slade Coster Gang' -- Paul Nash and Dora Carrington -- Roger Fry and the post-impressionists -- 'This anarchic & egoistical condition' -- 'That awful ghost Tonks' -- 'The din of happiness' -- 'A most wonderful country' -- Eddie Marsh and Les Jeunes -- 'Georgian painters' -- 'No ordinary war' -- 'A valuable man' -- 'Ever busy yet ever at rest' -- 'Strident lies and foul death' -- War artists -- Armistice -- Epilogue: 'Another life, another world'.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Language

1. English

Note

1. Originally published: 2009.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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