Modern Times

British Prints, 1913-1939

Jennifer Farrell, Gillian Forrester, Rachel Mustalish

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Yale University
28 September 2021

Art & Architecture; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Prints & printmaking; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections

A look at the artistic and technical innovation of British printmaking from World War I to the eve of World War II, as artists from the Grosvenor School and beyond harnessed an emerging modernist style

Throughout the tumultuous decades of the early twentieth century, the graphic arts flourished in Great Britain as artists sought to portray everyday life during the machine age. This richly illustrated volume reintroduces rare print works from the collection of Leslie and Johanna Garfield into the narrative of modernism, demonstrating their relationship to other movements such as Cubism, Futurism, and Constructivism. Essays explore how artists turned to printmaking to alleviate trauma, memorialize their wartime experiences, and capture the aspirations and fears of the twenties and thirties. Special attention is given to the linocut technique revolutionized by Claude Flight and his students at London’s Grosvenor School of Modern Art. Highlighted as well are the pioneering works of artists such as C. R. W. Nevinson, Sybil Andrews, Cyril E. Power, Paul Nash, Edward Wadsworth, Edith Lawrence, Ursula Fookes, and Lill Tschudi. In their quest to promote a more democratic art, these artists created innovative graphics that portrayed in subject, form, material, and technique the dynamic era in which they lived.

By: Jennifer Farrell
Contributions by: Gillian Forrester, Rachel Mustalish
Imprint: Yale University
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 229mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 1.126kg
ISBN: 9781588397393
ISBN 10: 1588397394
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 28 September 2021
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jennifer Farrell is associate curator in the Department of Drawing and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Reviews for Modern Times: British Prints, 1913-1939

“[In] Modern Times…there is a particularly good range of bold lino cuts by Cyril Power and Sybil Andrews and their contemporaries.”—Catherine Croft, C20 Magazine