Modern Times: British Prints, 1913-1939

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.

Author: Jennifer Farrell
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Published: 10/26/2021
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.50lbs
Size: 10.24h x 9.21w x 1.02d
ISBN13: 9781588397393
ISBN10: 1588397394
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Prints
- Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions | Permanent
- Art | History | Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)

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