Foreigner and Fascists: Patterns of Hostility to Modern Art in Britain before and after the First World War
Foreigner and Fascists: Patterns of Hostility to Modern Art in Britain before and after the First World War
The chapter traces patterns of hostility to modernism in British art in the period of and just after the First World War, notably the accusations of incompetence, defective training or skill, mental insufficiency, Bolshevism, and most notably Jewishness. The author has researched the newspaper correspondence, the anti-modernist tracts and publications, and importantly the anti-semetic tendencies in these publications - and the reactions of the artists, such as Jacob Epstein, who were caught up in them. The political affiliations of anti-modernism with the Royal Academy and through it with the aesthetic and artistic preferences of the British Royal Family are also explored.
0300094884
169-198
Taylor, Brandon
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2002
Taylor, Brandon
b8ee0f12-9f7a-4598-968b-7593c5ef4677
Taylor, Brandon
(2002)
Foreigner and Fascists: Patterns of Hostility to Modern Art in Britain before and after the First World War.
In,
Corbett, David Peters, Holt, Ysanne and Russell, Fiona
(eds.)
The Geographies of Englishness: Landscape and the National Past 1880-1940.
(Studies in British Art, 10)
London, UK.
Yale University Press, .
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The chapter traces patterns of hostility to modernism in British art in the period of and just after the First World War, notably the accusations of incompetence, defective training or skill, mental insufficiency, Bolshevism, and most notably Jewishness. The author has researched the newspaper correspondence, the anti-modernist tracts and publications, and importantly the anti-semetic tendencies in these publications - and the reactions of the artists, such as Jacob Epstein, who were caught up in them. The political affiliations of anti-modernism with the Royal Academy and through it with the aesthetic and artistic preferences of the British Royal Family are also explored.
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Published date: 2002
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Local EPrints ID: 38076
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/38076
ISBN: 0300094884
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David Peters Corbett
Editor:
Ysanne Holt
Editor:
Fiona Russell
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