Art Books for the People : The Origins of the Penguin Modern Painters (Elements in Publishing and Book Culture)

Trigg, David

Cambridge University Press（2025/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 100 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009578141
• DDC分類 070.509045

Full Description

The Penguin Modern Painters (1944-1959) was a groundbreaking series of British art monographs designed to promote the work of contemporary artists to a general readership. In examining the factors that influenced the wartime conception and development of the series, this Element makes a contribution to the understanding of the relationship between publishing and the visual arts during the Second World War. The study argues that the emergence of The Penguin Modern Painters was inextricably linked to the aims of British wartime cultural policy and the ideology of the pre-war adult education movement. The key personalities involved are identified and their multiple and often conflicting motives analysed to provide new insights into the shifting perspectives of Britain's elites regarding the way that art was presented to the public in the 1940s. This Element provides a foundation on which further study of twentieth-century art publishing in Britain might be developed.

Contents

Introduction; 1. Propaganda and Publishing: A Pre-History of The Penguin Modern Painters; 2. Hatching a Penguin: The Birth of The Penguin Modern Painters; 3. Penguin and the People: Identifying an Audience for The Penguin Modern Painters; Conclusion.