Modern Life and Modern Subjects : British Art

In May 1914 the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London opened its exhibition of "Twentieth-Century Art". The catalogue identified four main strands in modern painting but included a fifth group of Jewish artists, hung in the "Small Gallery". In this illuminating book art historian Lisa Tickner takes a fresh look at the work of artists from each of these strands. In a series of innovative case studies, combining analysis with substantial new research, she examines the artists' radical approaches to the process of painting and their resources in the defining conditions of modern life.

Tickner discusses Walter Sickert's Camden Town Murder and L'Affaire de Camden Town in the context of tabloid crime. Augustus John's Lyric Fantasy is seen as rooted in, but also as qualifying, the Edwardian fascination with gypsies and tramping while memorializing John's dead wife, Ida. The studies for Wyndham Lewis's lost Kermesse are connected to popular dance and to his sense of the "wild body". Vanessa Bell's Studland Beach is related to the emergence of the beach as a social and ps

Lisa Tickner is Professor of Art History at Middlesex University, London.

Acknowledgements

ix

Preface

xii

Introduction: Twentieth-Century Art and the Whitechapel Exhibition of 1914

1

(10)

The Camden Town Murder and Tabloid Crime

11

(38)

Walter Sickert

Gypsies, Tramps and Lyric Fantasy

49

(30)

Augustus John

Dance and the Popular Culture of Kermesse

79

(38)

Wyndham Lewis

Studland Beach, Domesticity and `Significant Form'

117

(26)

Vanessa Bell

In the Hold, Jews and Cubism

143

(41)

David Bomberg

Afterword: Modernism and Modernity

184

(31)

Appendix A: The Albert Hall Picture Ball, 1913

215

(3)

Appendix B: The Jewish Section, 1914

218

(2)

Notes

220

(97)

Select Bibliography

317

(11)

Index

328

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Modern Life and Modern Subjects : British Art in the Early Twentieth Century

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