Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
In the 1930s and 1940s, while the battles for modern art and modern society were being fought in Paris and Spain, it seemed to some a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea shops.\ Alexandra Harris tells a different story: eclectically, passionately,\ wittily, urgently, English artists were exploring what it meant to be alive at that moment and in England. They showed that “the modern”\ need not be at war with the past:...
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A groundbreaking reassessment of English cultural life in the thirties and forties.
