基本説明
Winner of the 2010 Guardian First Book Award: a groundbreaking reassessment of English cultural life in the thirties and forties. English artists showed that "the modern" need not be at war with the past: constructivists and conservatives could work together. This great imaginative project was shared by writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics, and composers.
Full Description
In this new and engaging study Alex Harris presents a confident case for the interest and importance of the English arts during the modern period. During the 1930s and 1940s, a rich network of cultural and personal encounters was the backdrop for a modern English renaissance, with English artists exploring what it meant to be alive at that moment and in England. Harris examines the work of writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics and composers, some well known and some almost forgotten: John Betjeman, Florence White, Evelyn Waugh, Elizabeth Bowen, the Sitwells, John Piper, Cecil Beaton and more.
Contents
Prologue * 1. Ancient & Modern * 2. Concrete and Curlicues * 3. A Georgian Revival 4. Victoriana * 5. From Purity to a Pageant * 6. A Break for Refreshments * 7. The Canon Revised * 8. The Weather Forecast * 9. Village Life * 10. Parish News * 11. Variations on a View * 12. An Hour in the Garden * 13. Dreaming of Manderley * 14. House Building * 15. Literary Architecture
