Full Description
Informed by new research, this rich collection of thought-provoking essays presents a fresh assessment of British Art in the Cultural Field, 1939 69, locating influential artists, movements, institutions, and individual works against the changing economic and cultural landscape to shed new light on this seminal period in British art history. * International art historians explore many different aspects of the period which saw post-war austerity, decolonisation, and the birth of postmodernism * Takes a variety of approaches, from the broad canvas of the political economy of art to closely attentive readings of individual artists and works, from Bacon to Stirling, and the Independent Group to Pop Art * Invaluable for students and scholars of the field, as well as general readers, including the growing number of collectors of twentieth-century British art
Contents
6 Notes on Contributors 8 Chapter 1 Being British and Going Somewhere Lisa Tickner and David Peters Corbett 18 Chapter 2 The morrow we left behind : Landscape and the Rethinking of Modernism, 1939 53 Chris Stephens 36 Chapter 3 Sculpture for the Hand: Herbert Read in the Studio of Kurt Schwitters Megan R. Luke 54 Chapter 4 Science, Art and Landscape in the Nuclear Age Catherine Jolivette 72 Chapter 5 Photography into Building in Post-war Architecture: The Smithsons and James Stirling Claire Zimmerman 90 Chapter 6 Realism, Brutalism, Pop Alex Potts 116 Chapter 7 The Independent Group s Anthropology of Ourselves Catherine Spencer 138 Chapter 8 Dada s Mama: Richard Hamilton s Queer Pop Jonathan D. Katz 156 Chapter 9 Francis Bacon: Painting after Photography Martin Hammer 174 Chapter 10 Vulgar Pictures: Bacon, de Kooning, and the Figure under Abstraction Andrew R. Lee 196 Chapter 11 Export Britain : Pop Art, Mass Culture and the Export Drive Lisa Tickner 222 Chapter 12 Painting and Sculpture of a Decade 54 64 Revisited Andrew Stephenson 244 Chapter 13 Varieties of Belatedness and Provincialism: Decolonization and British Pop Leon Wainwright 265 Index
