A Coherent Splendor

Download or read book The Avant-garde in Interwar England written by Michael T. Saler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses modernism's ties to tradition, commerce, nationalism, and spirituality through an analysis of the assimilation of visual modernism in England between 1910 and 1939. Specifically, The Avant-Garde in Interwar England explores the life of Frank Pick, managing director of the London Underground, whose patronage of modern artists, architects, and designers was guided by a desire to unite nineteenth-century arts and crafts with twentieth-century industry and mass culture. Author Saler demonstrates that modernism was widely associated in England with medievalism, and was also thought to have direct social, economic, and spiritual benefits for the nation.