Humankind: Ruskin Spear: class, culture and art in 20th century Britain

Humankind: Ruskin Spear, class, culture and art in 20th century Britain is the first book on the painter Ruskin Spear RA (1911-1990) since a brief monograph in 1985. It uses Spear's career to unlock the coded standards of the 20th-century art world and to look at class and culture in Britain an...

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1. Verfasser: Harrod, Tanya 1951- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Spear, Ruskin 1911-1990 (IllustratorIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Thames & Hudson 2022
Schriftenreihe:Studies in art
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Zusammenfassung:Humankind: Ruskin Spear, class, culture and art in 20th century Britain is the first book on the painter Ruskin Spear RA (1911-1990) since a brief monograph in 1985. It uses Spear's career to unlock the coded standards of the 20th-century art world and to look at class and culture in Britain and at notions of 'vulgarity'. The book takes in popular press debates linked to the annual Royal Academy Summer Exhibition; the changing preferences of the institutionalized avant-garde from the Second World War onwards; the battles fought within colleges of art as a generation of post-war students challenged the skills and commitment of their tutors; and the changing status of figurative art in the post-war period. Spear was committed to a form of social realism but the art he produced for left-wing and pacifist exhibitions and causes had a sophistication, authenticity and humour that flowed from his responses to bravura painting across a broad historical swathe of European art, and from the fact that he was painting what he knew. 'Humankind' has an obvious interest for art historians, but it also functions as a social history that brings alive aspects of British popular culture from tabloid journalism to the social mores of the public house and the snooker hall as well as the unexpected functions of official and unofficial portraiture. Written with general reader in mind, it has a powerful narrative that presents a remarkable rumbustious character and a diverse series of art and non-art worlds
Beschreibung:277 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm
ISBN:9780500971192
0500971196

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