Trevor Harris (ed.), Art, Politics and Society in Britain (1880–1914): Aspects of Modernity and Modernism

Trevor Harris makes the point in his preface to this collection of essays on the interconnections between art, politics and society in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain that the significance of “modernity” and “modernism” “can only be usefully explored if one admits and explores t...

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Autore principale: Davie, Neil
Natura: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lingua:Anglais
Pubblicazione: Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens 2015
Accesso online:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Riassunto:Trevor Harris makes the point in his preface to this collection of essays on the interconnections between art, politics and society in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain that the significance of “modernity” and “modernism” “can only be usefully explored if one admits and explores the contradictions, and even paradoxes that they generate” (viii). The eight essays in this collection, which grew out of a conference on the same theme held at the University of Tours in 2008, prov...