Origins and brinks multiple modernisms in postwar London
Origins and brinks: multiple modernisms in postwar London

This chapter stages speculative encounters between four artists who lived in the British capital for a substantial period of time in the 1950s in an attempt to recapture a sense of the fluidity and idiosyncrasy of this cultural landscape. With powerful associations to questions of origins, identity...

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1. Verfasser: Smith, Giulia (VerfasserIn)
Format: Artikel
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2021
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Jackson, Sarah > 1924-2004
Williams, Aubrey > 1926-1990
Scanavino, Emilio > 1922-1986
Sutherland, Graham > 1903-1980
Geschichte 1950-1960
Kunst
Moderne
London
Zusammenfassung:This chapter stages speculative encounters between four artists who lived in the British capital for a substantial period of time in the 1950s in an attempt to recapture a sense of the fluidity and idiosyncrasy of this cultural landscape. With powerful associations to questions of origins, identity and inheritance, the study of this motif offers an ideal vantage point from which to deconstruct the fiction of single modernism unfolding along a teleological axis. The drawing, which Sarah and Anthony Jackson acquired in 1952, portrays a pterosaur cranium and is one in series of studies for a much larger canvas titled The Origins of the Land. Art historians have typically related this repertoire to wartime trauma. "In the aftermath of death camps and Hiroshima," Sarah Wilson argued in her seminal account of postwar existentialism, "the idea of a reversal of evolution, the degeneration of the human through mammal and bat to bird and insect forms was a powerful metaphor of regression.".
Beschreibung:Illustrationen
ISBN:978-0-367-14084-7

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