EAN: 9780500296486

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An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While
the battles for modern art and society were being fought in France and Spain  it has seemed a
betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches
and tea-shops. In this multi-award-winning book  Alexandra Harris tells a different story. In
the 1930s and 1940s  artists and writers explored what it meant to be alive in England.
Eclectically  passionately  wittily  they showed that 'the modern' need not be at war with the
past. Constructivists and conservatives could work together  and even the Bauhaus émigré 
László Moholy-Nagy  was beguiled into taking photographs for Betjeman's nostalgic Oxford
University Chest. This modern English renaissance was shared by writers  painters  gardeners 
architects  critics  tourists and composers. John Piper  Virginia Woolf  Florence White 
Christopher Tunnard  Evelyn Waugh  E. M. Forster and the Sitwells are part of the story  along
with Bill Brandt  Graham Sutherland  Eric Ravilious and Cecil Beaton.

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